The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and technology to show how ideas about the representation of nature, in both art and science, underwent a profound transformation between the age of the Renaissance and the early 1700s.
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This beautifully-illustrated book explores the relations between the accumulations of profitable commodities and the production of enlightening knowledge in Europeans' relations with their external worlds, opening a new way of expressing the historical relation between the arts of depicting the world and the techniques for knowing it. -- Simon Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Merchants and Marvels traces the paths by which many wonderful commodities were traded and collected in early-modern Europe. The editors and their contributors have produced a marvelous collection-a true Wunderkammer-to delight the mind. -- Jan Golinski, Department of History, University of New Hampshire
A terrific collection, which gives the reader both wonderful new stories, and a vivid sense of how historians are beginning to study the material side of cultural history. These well-presented original essays deserve a wide public. -- Tony Grafton,Department of History, Princeton University
Merchants and Marvels is wide-ranging and thought-provoking. -- Canadian Journal of History
Merchants and Marvels traces the paths by which many wonderful commodities were traded and collected in early-modern Europe. The editors and their contributors have produced a marvelous collection-a true Wunderkammer-to delight the mind. -- Jan Golinski, Department of History, University of New Hampshire
A terrific collection, which gives the reader both wonderful new stories, and a vivid sense of how historians are beginning to study the material side of cultural history. These well-presented original essays deserve a wide public. -- Tony Grafton,Department of History, Princeton University
Merchants and Marvels is wide-ranging and thought-provoking. -- Canadian Journal of History
About the Author
Pamela H. Smith is Associate Professor of History at Pomona College and the Claremont Graduate University. She is the author of The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, winner of the 1995 Pfizer Prize in the History of Science. Paula Findlen is Professor of History and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at Stanford University. She is the author of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, winner of the 1995 Marroro Prize in Italian History and 1996 Pfizer Prize in the History of Science.
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- The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault on 5 pages
- Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. The Clarendon Lectures and the Carpenter Lectures 1988: The Clarendon Lectures and the Carpenter Lectures, 1988 (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Stephen J. Greenblatt on 4 pages
- The Mastery of Nature by Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Florists' Flowers and Societies (Shire garden history) by Ruth Duthie on page 340, page 344, and page 345
- Science and the Secrets of Nature by William Eamon in Front Matter, page 57, and page 218
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- Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World by Londa Schiebinger on 4 pages
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