Matters of exchange : commerce, medicine, and science in the Dutch Golden Age /

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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 Harold Cook scrutinizes a wealth of historical documents rela...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cook, Harold John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2007]
Temas:
1600-1699
Science > Netherlands > History > 17th century.
Medicine > Netherlands > History > 17th century.
Medicine > History.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
History of Medicine
Commerce > history
History, 17th Century
Science > history
Sciences > Pays-Bas > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Médecine > Pays-Bas > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 17e siècle.
history of medicine.
SCIENCE > History.
SCIENCE > General.
Commerce
Medicine
Science
Handel.
Geneeskunde.
Wetenschap.
Netherlands > Commerce > History > 17th century.
Netherlands
Pays-Bas > Commerce > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Nederland.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Worldly goods and the transformations of objectivity
  • An information economy
  • Reformations tempered : in pursuit of natural facts
  • Commerce and medicine in Amsterdam
  • Truths and untruths from the Indies
  • Medicine and materialism : Descartes in the Republic
  • Industry and analysis
  • Gardens of the Indies transported
  • Translating what works : the medicine of East Asia
  • The refusal to speculate : sticking to simple things
  • Conclusions and comparisons.

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