Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715

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Publisher	: BRILL
Total Pages	: 495
Release	: 2010-10-25
ISBN-10	: 9789004186712
ISBN-13	: 9004186719
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Book excerpt: The conviction that Nature was God's second revelation played a crucial role in early modern Dutch culture. This book offers a fascinating account on how Dutch intellectuals contemplated, investigated, represented and collected natural objects, and how the notion of the 'Book of Nature' was transformed.

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