Merchants and Marvels: Commerce and the Representation of Nature in Early Modern Europe

by PamelaSmith (Editor), PaulaFindlen (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $46.80

  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.