Introduction, Commerce and the Representation of Nature in Art and Science / Pamela H. Smith and Paula Findlen
Part 1. Struggling with Reality: Visualizing Nature and Producing Knowledge
1. Splendor in the grass: the powers of nature and the art in the age or Dürer / Larry Silver and Pamela H. Smith --
2. Objects of art, objects of nature: visual representation and the investigation of nature / Pamela O. Long --
3. Mirroring the world: sea charts, navigation, and territorial claims in sixteenth-century Spain / Alison Sandman --
4. From blowfish to flower still life paintings: classification and its images, circa 1600 / Claudia Swan --
5. "Strange" ideas and "English" knowledge: natural science exchange in Elizabethan London / Deborah E. Harkness --
Part 2. Networks of Knowledge: Commerce and the Represntation of Nature
6. Local herbs, global medicines: commerce, knowledge, and commodities in Spanish America / Antonio Barrera --
7. Merchants and marvels: Hans Jacob Fugger and the origins of the Wunderkammer / Mark A. Meadow --
8. Practical alchemy and commercial exchange in the Holy Roman Empire / Tara E. Nummedal --
9, Time's bodies: crafting the preparation and the preservation of naturalia / Harold J. Cook --
10. Cartography, entrepreneurialism, and power in the reign of Louis XIV: the case of the Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji --
11. "Cornelius Meijer inventor et fecit": on the representation of science in late seventeenth-century Rome / Klaas van Berkel --
Part 3. Consumption, Art, and Science
12. Inventing nature: commerce, art and science in the early modern cabinet of curiosities / Paula Findlen --
13. Nature as art: the case of the tulip / Anne Goldgar --
14. Inventing exoticism: the project of Dutch geography and the marketing of the world, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt --
14. Shopping for instruments in Paris and London / James A. Bennett --
Epilogues
A world of wonders, a world of one / Lisa Roberts --
Questions of representation / Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann.
Contributors
Index
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