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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
Contents:
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.
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Prints and Drawings Shelves Bd.1.13 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available PD10008259
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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.