Silent Messengers : : The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries / / Sven Dupré.

This book speaks about a world of mute objects ranging from plant bulbs, divining rods, and archeological findings to drawn, painted or printed images. It describes the functions of these objects as ambiguous and polyvalent carriers of knowledge, and analyzes the ways in which networks of scholars,...

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Superior document:Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge
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Place / Publishing House:[s.l.] : : LIT Verlag,, 2011.
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge
Physical Description:1 online resource (395 p.)
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