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

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.

About the author

Eric Jorink (1963), Ph.D. in History cum laude, University of Groningen, is researcher at the Huygens Institute (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences), The Hague. The Dutch edition of this book was granted a research award by the prestigious Praemium Erasmianum Foundation.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Jorink
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2010
• EAN: 9789004186712
• ISBN: 978-90-04-18671-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 255 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 942 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)