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Introduction:Commerce and the Representation of Nature in Art and Science Pamela H. Smith and Paula Findlen Part 1. STRUGGLING WITH REALITY: Visualizing Nature and Producing Knowledge 1. Splendor in the Grass: The Powers of Nature and Art in the Age of Durer Larry Silver and Pamela H. Smith 2. Objects of Art/Objects of Nature: Visual Representation and the Investigation of Nature Pamela O. Long 3. Mirroring the World: Sea Charts: Navigation and Territorial Claims Alison Sandman 4. From Blowfish to Flower Still Life Paintings: Classification and Its Images, circa 1600 Claudia Swan 5. "Strange" Ideas and "English" Knowledge: Natural Science Exchange in Elizabethan London Deborah E. Harkness Part 2. NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE: Commerce and the Representation of Nature 6. Local Herbs, Global Medicines: Commerce, Knowledge and Commodities in Spanish America Antonio Barrera 7. Merchants and Marvels: Hans Jacob Fugger and the Origins of the Wunderkammer Mark A. Meadow 8. Practical Alchemy and Commercial Exchange in the Holy Roman Empire Tara E. Nummedal 9. Time’s Bodies: Crafting the Preparation and Preservation of Naturalia Harold J. Cook 10. Cartography, Entrepreneurialism and Power in the Reign of Louis XIV: The Case of the Canal du Midi Chandra Mukerji 11. ’Cornelius Meijer inventor et fecit’: On the Representation of Science in Late Seventeenth-Century Rome Klass van Berkel Part 3. CONSUMPTION, ART AND SCIENCE 12. Inventing Nature: Commerce, Art and Science in the Early Modern Cabinet of Curiosities Paula Findlen 13. Nature as Art: The Case of the Tulip Anne Goldgar 14. Inventing Exoticism: The Project of Dutch Geography and the Marketing of the World, circa 1700 Benjamin Schmidt 15. Shopping for Instruments in Paris and London James A. Bennett EPILOGUES A World of Wonders, A World of One Lissa Roberts Questions of Representation Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Contributors Index.