Book ID: CBB000760014

Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age (2007)

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Cook, Harold John (Author)


Yale University Press
Publication date: 2007
Language: English


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xiv + 562 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index

Description Argues that the activity of Dutch commerce provided a new emphasis on qualities that came to be recognized as relating to the pursuit of natural knowledge, including objectivity and description.


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Review Sánchez, Antonio (2008) Review of "Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age". Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam (p. 440). unapi

Review Knoeff, Rina (2008) Review of "Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 278). unapi

Review Miert, Dirk van (2008) Review of "Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age". Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis (p. 70). unapi

Review Jacob, Margaret C. (2009) Review of "Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age". Journal of Modern History (p. 221). unapi

Review Matthews, Steven Paul (2010) Review of "Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age". Journal of World History (p. 336). unapi

Review Vermij, Rienk (2011) Review of "Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age". European History Quarterly (p. 302). unapi

Essay Review Long, Pamela O. (2008) Plants and Animals in History: The Study of Nature in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 313-323). unapi

Essay Review Mijnhardt, Wijnand (2007) Dutch Commerce and the Origins of Modern Science. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 809-812). unapi

Essay Review Jones, Matthew L. (2010) Matters of Fact. Modern Intellectual History (pp. 629-642). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ash, Eric H.
Curth, Louise
Erlichman, Howard J.
Goldgar, Anne
Hicks, Robert D.
Huigen, Siegfried
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Pharmacy in History
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Boydell & Brewer
University of Chicago Press
Ashgate
Boydell Press
Brill
Concepts
Science and economics
Business and commerce
Science and politics
Trade
Earth sciences
Mines and mining
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Renaissance
19th century
20th century
Places
Netherlands
England
Europe
Great Britain
Holy Roman Empire
Asia
Institutions
Dutch East India Company
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