Format:
IX, 437 S.
,
Ill.
,
23 cm
ISBN:
0415928168
,
041592815X
,
9780415928151
Content:
Inhalt: Splendor in the grass: the powers of nature and the art in the age or Dürer / Larry Silver and Pamela H. Smith -- Objects of art, objects of nature: visual representation and the investigation of nature / Pamela O. Long -- Mirroring the world: sea charts, navigation, and territorial claims in sixteenth-century Spain / Alison Sandman -- From blowfish to flower still life paintings: classification and its images, circa 1600 / Claudia Swan -- "Strange" ideas and "English" knowledge: natural science exchange in Elizabethan London / Deborah E. Harkness -- Local herbs, global medicines: commerce, knowledge, and commodities in Spanish America / Antonio Barrera -- Merchants and marvels: Hans Jacob Fugger and the origins of the Winderkammer / Mark A. Meadow -- Patriarchal alchemy and commercial exchange in the Holy Roman Empire / Tara E. Nummedal -- Time's bodies: crafting the preparation and the preservation of naturalia / Harold J. Cook -- Cartography, entrepreneurialism, and power in the reign of Louis XIV: the case of Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji -- "Cornelius Meijer inventor et fecit": on the representation of science in late seventeenth-century Rome / Klass van Berkel -- Inventing nature: commerce, art and science in the early modern cabinet of curiosities / Paula Findlen -- Nature as art: the case of the tulip / Anne Godgar -- Inventing exoticism: the project of Dutch geography and the marketing of the world, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt -- Shopping for instruments in Paris and London / James A. Bennett -- A world of wonders, a world of one / Lisa Roberts -- Questions of representation / Thomas Dakota Huffman
Content:
Die Aufsätze sind in 3 Kapitel und 1 Epilog eingeteilt: Part 1. Struggling with reality: visualizing nature and producing knowledge -- Part 2. Networks of knowledge: commerce and the representation of nature -- Part 3. Consumption, art, and science -- [Part]. Epilogues
Note:
Splendor in the grass: the powers of nature and the art in the age or Dürer / Larry Silver and Pamela H. Smith -- Objects of art, objects of nature: visual representation and the investigation of nature / Pamela O. Long -- Mirroring the world: sea charts, navigation, and territorial claims in sixteenth-century Spain / Alison Sandman -- From blowfish to flower still life paintings: classification and its images, circa 1600 / Claudia Swan -- "Strange" ideas and "English" knowledge: natural science exchange in Elizabethan London / Deborah E. Harkness -- Local herbs, global medicines: commerce, knowledge, and commodities in Spanish America / Antonio Barrera -- Merchants and marvels: Hans Jacob Fugger and the origins of the Winderkammer / Mark A. Meadow -- Patriarchal alchemy and commercial exchange in the Holy Roman Empire / Tara E. Nummedal -- Time's bodies: crafting the preparation and the preservation of naturalia / Harold J. Cook -- Cartography, entrepreneurialism, and power in the reign of Louis XIV: the case of Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji -- "Cornelius Meijer inventor et fecit": on the representation of science in late seventeenth-century Rome / Klass van Berkel -- Inventing nature: commerce, art and science in the early modern cabinet of curiosities / Paula Findlen -- Nature as art: the case of the tulip / Anne Godgar -- Inventing exoticism: the project of Dutch geography and the marketing of the world, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt -- Shopping for instruments in Paris and London / James A. Bennett -- A world of wonders, a world of one / Lisa Roberts -- Questions of representation / Thomas Dakota Huffman.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Europa
;
Ästhetik
;
Handel
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Geschichte 1500-1700
;
Natur
;
Kunst
;
Wirtschaft
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Wissenschaft
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Smith, Pamela H. 1957-
Author information:
Findlen, Paula 1964-
