《金钱、奇珍异品与造物术》内容简介
本书是一部现代早期（17、18世纪）欧洲科学史著作，主要内容是荷兰博物学家、解剖学家在科学领域和商业领域做出的创新。自17世纪科学革命以来，商业利益对科学产生了强烈的影响。在本书中，作者介绍了当时的阿姆斯特丹、伦敦、圣彼得堡、巴黎的博物学家、医生和古物学家，他们为了促进科学产品贸易，发展了现代分类学，发明了彩色印刷和标本制备技术，并参与了从人体解剖学到牛顿光学的哲学辩论。他们生产并向世界各地的客户出售珍奇异品、解剖学印刷品、标本和自然历史地图册。
在全球贸易极大地影响了文化生产的背景下，作者探究了知识商品化、视觉表现（标本、画册）以及现代早期荷兰科学领域三者之间的关系。在作者看来，商业网络在科学知识的生产与传播方面发挥了重要作用；此外，现代科学并非来自那些孤立的杰出人物，而是在科学期刊、印刷品以及信件加快思想交流的过程中，发展而来。
作者简介：
作者：[美]丹尼尔·马戈奇（DánielMargócsy），哈佛大学科技史博士，剑桥大学历史与科学哲学系讲师，曾在美国西北大学、纽约城市大学任教，研究方向为现代早期科学、医学和技术的文化史。
译者简介：
李天蛟，自由译者，中国翻译协会会员，英国留学归国，已出版译著《王莽》《中国人的历史意识》《精准记忆》《听说你的焦虑被一株植物治愈了》《穿越时间的船舶》《食物小传：派》等。
Money, Curiosities and Creation
This book is a history of early modern (17th and 18th century) European science, focusing on the scientific and commercial innovations of Dutch naturalists and anatomists. Since the scientific Revolution in the 17th century, commercial interests have had a strong influence on science. In this book, the author introduces the naturalists, doctors, and antiquarians of the time in Amsterdam, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris who, in order to promote the trade in scientific products, developed modern taxonomy, invented color printing and taxidermy techniques, and engaged in philosophical debates from human anatomy to Newtonian optics. They produce and sell curiosities, anatomical prints, specimens, and natural history atlases to customers around the world.
In a context where global trade has greatly influenced cultural production, the author explores the relationship between the commodification of knowledge, visual representations (specimens, picture books), and the field of Dutch science in the early modern period. In the author's opinion, commercial networks play an important role in the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Moreover, modern science did not come from isolated luminaries, but from scientific journals, prints, and letters that accelerated the exchange of ideas.
About the author:
DanielMargocsy is a lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He has taught at Northwestern University and the City University of New York. His research focuses on the cultural history of science, medicine, and technology in the early modern era.
About the Translator
Li Tianjiao, a freelance translator, a member of the Translation Association of China, returned from studying in the UK, has published translations of Wang Mang, Chinese Historical Consciousness, Accurate Memory, I heard that your anxiety was cured by a plant, A Ship through Time, Food Biography: Pie, etc.
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