Centres and Cycles of Accumulation in and Around the Netherlands during the Early Modern Period

Lissa Roberts (Ed.)
The Netherlands housed a number of widely known, envied and emulated centres of accumulation during the early modern period. Raw and manufactured goods passed through Dutch port cities, linking the country to global cycles of accumulation and exchange. Its institutions of learning and culture similarly served as internationally famous centres of accumulation that furthered knowledge and cultural production, embodied in the form of books, maps and prints, exhibits and the like. Centres and Cycles of Accumulation in and around the Netherlands brings histories of manufacture, commerce and global exchange together with histories of knowledge and cultural circulation during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by anatomizing the multi-faceted concept of accumulation. Its essays explore the processes that led to the formation of concentrated, often hybrid, sites of material, intellectual and cultural accumulation in the Netherlands and its overseas stations, as well as the concerns and consequences to which the successes and challenges of accumulation gave rise. The book will be of interest to historians of science, technology and culture, as well as to economic historians.

Contents
Acknowledgements 1
Lissa Roberts - Centres and Cycles of Accumulation 3
Karel Davids - Dutch and Spanish Global Networks of Knowledge in the Early Modern Period: Structures, Connections, Changes 29
Pete Langman - “I Giue Thee Leave to Publish” New Atlantis and Francis Bacon’s Republic of Knowledge 53
Arjen Dijkstra - A Wonderful Little Book. The Dissertatio Astronomica by Johannes Phocylides Holwarda (1618-1651) 73
Alette Fleischer - The Company’s Garden and the (Ex)change of Nature and Knowledge at Cape of Good Hope (1652-1700) 101
Benjamin Schmidt - Accumulating the World: Collecting and Commodifying ‘Globalism’ in Early Modern Europe 129
Rina Knoeff - The Visitor’s View: Early Modern Tourism and the Polyvalence of Anatomical Exhibits 155
Johan de Jong - Drawings, Ships and Spices: Accumulation at the Dutch East India Company 177
Ernst Hamm - Mennonite Centres of Accumulation: Martyrs and Instruments 205
Tim Huisman - Layers of Meaning, from Scienti?c Instrument to Exhibition at the Museum Boerhaave 231
Biographical sketches 255
Bibliography 259
Index 286

Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge - Volume 2

Lit Verlag, Paperback, english, 290 pages

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