Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age

by Dániel Margócsy

Entrepreneurial science is not new; business interests have strongly influenced science since the Scientific Revolution. In Commercial Visions, D niel Marg csy illustrates that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded natural history and medicine--the "big sciences" of the early modern era--and argues that the growth of global trade during the Dutch Golden Age gave rise to an entrepreneurial network of transnational...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022611774X
• ISBN13: 9780226117744
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"