Paula Findlen (ed.)

Broschiertes Buch

Merchants and Marvels

Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe

Herausgeber: Smith, Pamela; Findlen, Paula

Beschreibung

Merchants and Marvels addresses 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.

Autor

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 andCulture 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9780415928168
• ISBN-10: 0415928168
• Artikelnr.: 22368157