01854nam 22004093a 450 991063780120332120231108184546.0(CKB)5470000001631561(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/94625(ScCtBLL)eb4dc8a5-b9c6-49ec-89ff-8ec944425fd4(oapen)doab94625(EXLCZ)99547000000163156120231108i20112022 uu engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSilent Messengers : The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries /Sven Dupré2011[s.l.] :LIT Verlag,2011.1 online resource (395 p.)Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge9783825816353 3825816354 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, craftsmen, mathematicians, anatomy professors or merchants active in the Low Countries attributed new meanings to them. The book treats of a period in which cities like Antwerp and Amsterdam were nodal points in the international exchange of goods, news, and skills.Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural KnowledgeHumanitiesbicsscHistoryHumanitiesDupré Sven1301156ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910637801203321Silent Messengers3025737UNINA