Inventing nature: Commerce, art, and science in the early modern cabinet of curiosities

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 297-323

  Findlen, Paula ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85071796538     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203950999-21     Document Type: Chapter

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