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Illustrating that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded natural history and medicine - the big sciences of the early modern era, this book argues that the growth of global trade during the Dutch Golden Age gave rise to an entrepreneurial network of transnational science.

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"Money and science have long been connected. Scientific activity needs to be paid for, but at times it can also turn into a nice little earner. As science became more materialistic, one of the most important tools for investigation became the ability to picture phenomena. In excavating how that happened in the early stages of the Scientific Revolution, in one of the most commercialized regions of Europe, Margocsy's book makes a major contribution to the histories of science and of art." (Harold J. Cook, Brown University)"

Commercial Visions

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 9 October 2014
      ISBN-13 9780226117744
      978-0226117744
      ISBN-10 022611774X
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      International economics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Illustrating that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded natural history and medicine - the big sciences of the early modern era, this book argues that the growth of global trade during the Dutch Golden Age gave rise to an entrepreneurial network of transnational science.

      Trade Review
      "Money and science have long been connected. Scientific activity needs to be paid for, but at times it can also turn into a nice little earner. As science became more materialistic, one of the most important tools for investigation became the ability to picture phenomena. In excavating how that happened in the early stages of the Scientific Revolution, in one of the most commercialized regions of Europe, Margocsy's book makes a major contribution to the histories of science and of art." (Harold J. Cook, Brown University)"

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