Shopping for instruments in Paris and London

Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 370-395

  Bennett, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203950999-24     Document Type: Chapter

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