Reading the book of nature in the Dutch golden age, 1575-1715 Jorink, Eric 2010 Brill eBook titles 2011 ( Serie ) Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Englisch 9789004191204 Abstract

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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