Merchants & marvels : commerce, science and art in early modern Europe ; [this volume of essays began life in two conferences: a session held at the 1997 History of Science Society meeting in San Diego, and a 1999 workshop at the Clark Library hosted by the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles]

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 i...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
Weitere Verfasser: Smith, Pamela H. 1957- (HerausgeberIn), Findlen, Paula 1964- (HerausgeberIn), History of Science Society, University of California Los Angeles Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, History of Science Society Meeting, Workshop at the Clark Library, University of California Los Angeles. Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY [u.a.] : Routledge, 2002
Schlagworte:Art and science Nature (Aesthetics) Geschichte 1500-1650 Europa Ästhetik Handel Naturwissenschaften Geschichte 1500-1700 Natur Kunst mehr... Wirtschaft Geschichte 1500-1800 Wissenschaft Kulturgeschichte Frühe Neuzeit Renaissance
Umfang:IX, 437 S.