Book ID: CBB001221238

Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (2011)

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Dupré, Sven (Editor)
Lüthy, Christoph H. (Editor)


LIT Verlag


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: 387 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Hunter, Matthew C. (2012) Review of "Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 255-257). unapi

Review Beretta, Marco (2012) Review of "Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 587-588). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Dupré, Sven; Lüthy, Christoph (2011) Introduction: Silent Messengers. The World of Goods and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Early Modern Netherlands. In: Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Feola, Vittoria (2011) Botanical, Heraldic and Historical Exchanges Concerning Lilies: The Background of Jean-Jacques Chifflet's Lilium Francicum (1658). In: Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (p. 13). unapi

Chapter Tetrada, María Luz López (2011) Flora and the Hapsburg Crown: Clusius, Spain, and American Natural History. In: Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (p. 43). unapi

Chapter Van Cleempoel, Koenraad (2011) The Migration of Instrumental Knowledge from Flanders to Spain. The Role of the Sixteenth-Century Flemish Instrument Maker Petrus ab Aggere. In: Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (p. 69). unapi

Chapter Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan (2011) Moving around the Ellipse. Conic Sections in Leiden, 1620--1660. In: Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (p. 89). unapi

Chapter Keller, Vera (2011) How to Become a Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosopher: The Case of Cornelis Drebbel (1572--1633). In: Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (p. 125). unapi

Chapter Jorink, Eric (2011) Noah's Ark Restored (and Wrecked): Dutch Collectors, Natural History and the Problem of Biblical Exegesis. In: Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (p. 153). unapi

Chapter Margócsy, Daniel (2011) A Museum of Wonders or a Cemetery of Corpses? The Commercial Exchange of Anatomical Collections in Early Modern Netherlands. In: Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (p. 185). unapi

Chapter Zittel, Claus (2011) Conflicting Pictures: Illustrating Descartes' Traité de l'homme. In: Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (p. 217). unapi

Chapter Dupré, Sven (2011) Trading Luxury Glass, Picturing Collections and Consuming Objects of Knowledge in Early Seventeenth-Century Antwerp. In: Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (p. 261). unapi

Chapter Vermeir, Koen (2011) Circulating Knowledge or Superstition? The Dutch Debate on Divination. In: Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (p. 293). unapi

Chapter Cook, Harold J. (2011) Closing Comments. In: Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (p. 329). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Berkel, Klaas van
Leitão, Henrique
Ruben E. Verwaal
Julia A. Schmidt-Funke
Desborough, Jane
Rose, Alexandra
Concepts
Collectors and collecting
Crafts and craftspeople
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Science and society
Material culture
Science and art
Time Periods
17th century
Early modern
16th century
18th century
Renaissance
15th century
Places
Netherlands
Europe
England
London (England)
Americas
United States
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