Merchants & marvels : commerce, science and art in early modern Europe / edited by Pamela H. Smith & Paula Findlen.

New York ; London : Routledge, [2002], ©2002.

ix, 437 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Splendor in the grass: the powers of nature and the art in the age or Dürer / Larry Silver and Pamela H. Smith -- Objects of art, objects of nature: visual representation and the investigation of nature / Pamela O. Long -- Mirroring the world: sea charts, navigation, and territorial claims in sixteenth-century Spain / Alison Sandman -- From blowfish to flower still life paintings: classification and its images, circa 1600 / Claudia Swan -- "Strange" ideas and "English" knowledge: natural science exchange in Elizabethan London / Deborah E. Harkness -- Local herbs, global medicines: commerce, knowledge, and commodities in Spanish America / Antonio Barrera -- Merchants and marvels: Hans Jacob Fugger and the origins of the Winderkammer / Mark A. Meadow -- Patriarchal alchemy and commercial exchange in the Holy Roman Empire / Tara E. Nummedal -- Time's bodies: crafting the preparation and the preservation of naturalia / Harold J. Cook -- Cartography, entrepreneurialism, and power in the reign of Louis XIV: the case of Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji -- "Cornelius Meijer inventor et fecit": on the representation of science in late seventeenth-century Rome / Klass van Berkel -- Inventing nature: commerce, art and science in the early modern cabinet of curiosities / Paula Findlen -- Nature as art: the case of the tulip / Anne Godgar -- Inventing exoticism: the project of Dutch geography and the marketing of the world, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt -- Shopping for instruments in Paris and London / James A. Bennett -- A world of wonders, a world of one / Lisa Roberts -- Questions of representation / Thomas Dakota Huffman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.