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I - Early modern ventures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2018

Helen Anne Curry
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University of Cambridge
Nicholas Jardine
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University of Cambridge
James Andrew Secord
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University of Cambridge
Emma C. Spary
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University of Cambridge
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Further reading

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Further reading

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Further reading

Findlen, P., ‘The formation of a scientific community: natural history in sixteenth-century Italy’, in Grafton, A. and Siraisi, N. (eds.), Natural Particulars: Renaissance Natural Philosophy and the Disciplines (Cambridge, MA, 1999), pp. 369400.
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Further Reading

Bethencourt, F. and Egmond, F. (eds.), Correspondence and Exchange in Europe, 1400–1700 (Cambridge, 2007).
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Dupré, S., De Munck, B., Thomas, W. and Vanpaemel, G. (eds.), Embattled Territory: The Circulation of Knowledge in the Spanish Netherlands (Ghent, 2016).
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Egmond, F., Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500–1630 (London, 2016).
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Findlen, P., ‘The formation of a scientific community: natural history in sixteenth-century Italy’, in Grafton, A. and Siraisi, N. (eds.), Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe (Cambridge, MA, 1999), pp. 369400.
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Ogilvie, B., The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe (Chicago, 2006).
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Further reading

Campbell, M. B., The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400–1600 (Ithaca, 1988).
Cook, H. J., Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age (New Haven, 2007).
Egmond, F., The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550–1610 (London, 2010).
Johns, A., The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998).
Margócsy, D., Commercial Visions: Science, Trade and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age (Chicago, 2014).
Mason, P., Before Disenchantment: Images of Exotic Animals and Plants in the Early Modern World (London, 2009).
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Schaffer, S., Roberts, L., Raj, K. and Delbourgo, J. (eds.), The Brokered World: Go-betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770–1820 (Sagamore Beach, MA, 2009).

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Boone, E. H., ‘Incarnations of the Aztec supernatural: the image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe’, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 79:2 (1989), pp. i–iv and 1107.
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Further reading

Bennett, J., Cooper, M., Hunter, M. and Jardine, L., London’s Leonardo: The Life and Work of Robert Hooke (Oxford, 2003).
Birkhead, T. (ed.), Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby FRS (1635–1672) (Leiden, 2016).
Egmond, F., Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500–1630 (London, 2017).
Jorink, E., Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575–1715 (Leiden, 2010).
Kaufmann, T. D., The Mastery of Nature: Aspects of Art, Science and Humanism in the Renaissance (Princeton, 1993).
Meganck, T., Erudite Eyes: Friendship, Art and Erudition in the Network of Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) (Leiden, 2017).
Neri, J., The Insect and the Image: Visualising Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700 (Minneapolis, 2011).
Ruestow, E., The Microscope in the Dutch Republic: The Shaping of Discovery (Cambridge, 1996).
Wilson, C., The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope (Princeton, 1995).

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