Gems in the Early Modern World
Materials, Knowledge and Global Trade, 1450-1800
This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of gems in the early modern world. It examines the relations between the art, science, and technology of gems, and it does so against the backdrop of an expanding global trade in gems. The eleven chapters are organised into three parts. The first part sets the scene by describing how gems moved around the early modern world, how they were set in motion, and how they were pulled together in the course of their travels. The second part is about value. It asks why people valued gems, how they determined the value of a given gem, and how the value of a gem was connected to its perceived place o…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Dupré, Sven (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-319-96379-2
- EAN: 9783319963792
- Produktnummer: 29447413
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 359 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 9'202 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
- Abbildungen: 13 schwarz-weiße und 35 farbige Abbildungen, 21 farbige Tabellen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Michael Bycroft is Assistant Professor of the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick, UK. He completed his PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge in 2013, and has since held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the University of Warwick. He specialises in the physical sciences in early modern Europe, and is writing a monograph on the role of precious stones in the scientific revolution. Sven Dupré is Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He directs ARTECHNE, an interdisciplinary project on technique in the arts, supported by the European Research Council. Previously he was a Professor of History of Knowledge at the Freie Universität in Berlin.
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