Commercial visions : science, trade, and visual culture in the Dutch Golden Age / Dániel Margócsy.
By: Margócsy, Dániel
Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.Description: x, 319 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780226117744 (cloth : alkaline paper); 022611774X (cloth : alkaline paper)Subject(s): Science -- Netherlands -- History | Scientists -- Netherlands | Netherlands -- Commerce -- HistoryDDC classification: 382.09492 LOC classification: Q127.N2 | M37 2014| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-308) and index.
Baron von Uffenbach goes on a trip : the infrastructure of international science -- Shipping costs, the exchange of specimens, and the development of taxonomy -- Image as capital : forging Albertus Seba's thesaurus -- Anatomical specimens in the Republic of Letters : scientific publications as marketing tools -- Commercial epistemologies : the anatomical debates of Frederik Ruysch and Govard Bidloo -- Knowledge as commodity : the invention of color printing -- Peter the Great on a shopping spree.