Smith / Findlen Merchants and Marvels

Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-30035-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Pamela

Findlen, Paula

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction:Commerce and the Representation of Nature in Art and Science
Pamela H. Smith and Paula Findlen

Part 1. STRUGGLING WITH REALITY: Visualizing Nature and Producing Knowledge

1. Splendor in the Grass: The Powers of Nature and Art in the Age of Durer
Larry Silver and Pamela H. Smith

2. Objects of Art/Objects of Nature: Visual Representation and the Investigation of Nature
Pamela O. Long

3. Mirroring the World: Sea Charts: Navigation and Territorial Claims
Alison Sandman

4. From Blowfish to Flower Still Life Paintings: Classification and Its Images, circa 1600
Claudia Swan

5. "Strange" Ideas and "English" Knowledge: Natural Science Exchange in Elizabethan London
Deborah E. Harkness

Part 2. NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE: Commerce and the Representation of Nature

6. Local Herbs, Global Medicines: Commerce, Knowledge and Commodities in Spanish America
Antonio Barrera

7. Merchants and Marvels: Hans Jacob Fugger and the Origins of the Wunderkammer
Mark A. Meadow

8. Practical Alchemy and Commercial Exchange in the Holy Roman Empire
Tara E. Nummedal

9. Time's Bodies: Crafting the Preparation and Preservation of Naturalia
Harold J. Cook

10. Cartography, Entrepreneurialism and Power in the Reign of Louis XIV: The Case of the Canal du Midi
Chandra Mukerji

11. 'Cornelius Meijer inventor et fecit': On the Representation of Science in Late Seventeenth-Century Rome
Klass van Berkel

Part 3. CONSUMPTION, ART AND SCIENCE

12. Inventing Nature: Commerce, Art and Science in the Early Modern Cabinet of Curiosities
Paula Findlen

13. Nature as Art: The Case of the Tulip
Anne Goldgar

14. Inventing Exoticism: The Project of Dutch Geography and the Marketing of the World, circa 1700
Benjamin Schmidt

15. Shopping for Instruments in Paris and London
James A. Bennett

EPILOGUES

A World of Wonders, A World of One
Lissa Roberts

Questions of Representation
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pamela H. Smith is Associate Professor of History at Pomona College and the Claremont Graduate University. She is the author of The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, winner of the 1995 Pfizer Prize in the History of Science. Paula Findlen is Professor of History and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at Stanford University. She is the author of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, winner of the 1995 Marroro Prize in Italian History and 1996 Pfizer Prize in the History of Science.