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Science 18 May 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5827, pp. 983 - 984
DOI: 10.1126/science.1142456
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Science, the Fruit of Commerce

Jonathan I. Israel

Matters of Exchange
Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age
by Harold J. Cook
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007. 576 pp. $35. ISBN 9780300117967.
Cook presents a case for seeing Dutch commerce rather than religion as the crucial inspiration for the rise of science in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The reviewer is at the School of Historical Studies, Institute of Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. E-mail: jisrael{at}ias.edu

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