Silent Messengers
Subtitle: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries
Publisher: LIT Verlag
Published: Aug 18, 2011
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9783825816353
Description: "This book speaks about a world of mute objects ranging from plant bulbs, divining rods, and archeological findings to drawn, painted or printed images. It describes the functions of these objects as ambiguous and polyvalent carriers of knowledge, and analyzes the ways in which networks of scholars, craftsmen, mathematicians, anatomy professors or merchants active in the Low Countries attributed new meanings to them. The book treats of a period in which cities like Antwerp and Amsterdam were nodal points in the international exchange of goods, news, and skills."--
Notes: Source title: Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge)