Merchants and Marvels
Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe
Edited by Pamela Smith, Paula Findlen
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-92816-8
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 12th October 2001
- Pages: 448
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About the Book
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.
About the Author(s)
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.
