Commercial visions: science, trade, and visual culture in the Dutch Golden Age

Contents

Baron von Uffenbach goes on a trip : the infrastructure of international science -- Shipping costs, the exchange of specimens, and the development of taxonomy -- Image as capital : forging Albertus Seba's thesaurus -- Anatomical specimens in the Republic of Letters : scientific publications as marketing tools -- Commercial epistemologies : the anatomical debates of Frederik Ruysch and Govard Bidloo -- Knowledge as commodity : the invention of color printing -- Peter the Great on a shopping spree.