Support The World's Smartest Network
×

Help the New York Academy of Sciences bring late-breaking scientific information about the COVID-19 pandemic to global audiences. Please make a tax-deductible gift today.

DONATE
This site uses cookies.
Learn more.

×

This website uses cookies. Some of the cookies we use are essential for parts of the website to operate while others offer you a better browsing experience. You give us your permission to use cookies, by continuing to use our website after you have received the cookie notification. To find out more about cookies on this website and how to change your cookie settings, see our Privacy policy and Terms of Use.

We encourage you to learn more about cookies on our site in our Privacy policy and Terms of Use.

Uffenbach and the Commerce of Nature in the Scientific Revolution

FREE

for Members

Uffenbach and the Commerce of Nature in the Scientific Revolution

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

New York University

Presented By

 

This talk examines how long-distance trade transformed European natural history and anatomy in the years around 1700. It studies how innovations in advertising, banking, marketing and intellectual property regimes turned scientific knowledge into a commodity. The diaries and archives of Baron Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, the renowned curioso and scientific traveler, reveal how, in this period, a wealthy customer could acquire scientific expertise, and countless curiosities, by going on a shopping spree in the major cities of Northern Europe.

Speaker

Dániel Margócsy, PhD

Hunter College, CUNY

Dániel Margócsy is an assistant professor at Hunter College—CUNY. His research focuses on the impact of commercialization on the visual culture of early modern natural history and medicine. He has published articles in the Journal of the History of Ideas, the British Journal for the History of Science and the Netherlands Yearbook of Art History.

Registration Pricing

This meeting is free, but registration is required.

Travel & Lodging

Meeting Location

New York University

1 Washington Place, Room 801
New York, NY 10003