Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern EuropePamela Smith, Paula Findlen Routledge, 18.10.2013 - 448 Seiten The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and technology to show how ideas about the representation of nature, in both art and science, underwent a profound transformation between the age of the Renaissance and the early 1700s. |
Inhalt
Introduction Commerce and the Representation of Nature in Art and Science | 1 |
Part 1 STRUGGLING WITH REALITY Visualizing Nature and Producing Knowledge | 27 |
Part 2 NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE Commerce and the Representation of Nature | 161 |
Part 3 CONSUMPTION ART AND SCIENCE | 295 |
EPILOGUES | 397 |
Contributors | 423 |
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Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe Pamela Smith,Paula Findlen Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2013 |
Merchants & [and] marvels : commerce, science and art in early modern Europe Pamela H. Smith Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2002 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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