Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age - Rilegato

Margócsy, Dániel

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ISBN 10: 022611774X ISBN 13: 9780226117744

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Entrepreneurial science is not new; business interests have strongly influenced science since the Scientific Revolution. InCommercial Visions, Dániel Margócsy illustrates that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded natural history and medicinethe big sciences” of the early modern eraand argues that the growth of global trade during the Dutch Golden Age gave rise to an entrepreneurial network of transnational science.
           
Margócsy introduces a number of natural historians, physicians, and curiosi in Amsterdam, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris who, in their efforts to boost their trade, developed modern taxonomy, invented color printing and anatomical preparation techniques, and contributed to philosophical debates on topics ranging from human anatomy to Newtonian optics. These scientific practitioners, including Frederik Ruysch and Albertus Seba, were out to do business: they produced and sold exotic curiosities, anatomical prints, preserved specimens, and atlases of natural history to customers all around the world. Margócsy reveals how their entrepreneurial rivalries transformed the scholarly world of the Republic of Letters into a competitive marketplace.
           
Margócsy’s highly readable and engaging book will be warmly welcomed by anyone interested in early modern science, global trade, art, and culture.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Dániel Margócsy is assistant professor at Hunter College, City University of New York, and lives in New York.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 022611774X
• ISBN 13: 9780226117744
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 319