Commercial visions
Subtitle: science, trade, and visual culture in the Dutch Golden Age
By: Dániel Margócsy
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780226117744
Subjects: Science; History; Scientists; Commerce
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Baron von Uffenbach goes on a trip : the infrastructure of international science; title: Shipping costs, the exchange of specimens, and the development of taxonomy; title: Image as capital : forging Albertus Seba's thesaurus; title: Anatomical specimens in the Republic of Letters : scientific publications as marketing tools; title: Commercial epistemologies : the anatomical debates of Frederik Ruysch and Govard Bidloo; title: Knowledge as commodity : the invention of color printing; title: Peter the Great on a shopping spree.