Matters of Exchange : Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- One Worldly Goods and the Transformations of Objectivity -- Two An Information Economy -- Three Reformations Tempered: In Pursuit of Natural Facts -- Four Commerce and Medicine in Amsterdam -- Five Truths and Untruths from the Indies -- Six Medicine and Materialism: Descartes in the Republic -- Seven Industry and Analysis -- Eight Gardens of the Indies Transported -- Nine Translating What Works: The Medicine of East Asia -- Ten The Refusal to Speculate: Sticking to Simple Things -- Eleven Conclusions and Comparisons -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.