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

by Harold J. Cook

Book Overview

A new and unexpected history of the Dutch pursuit of commerce in the 16th and 17th centuries and how it triggered the Scientific Revolution

In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce--not religion--inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Cook scrutinizes a wealth of historical documents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300143214
• ISBN13: 9780300143218
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"