Merchants and Marvels

Merchants and Marvels PDF Author: Pamela Smith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135300356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Book Description
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.