The Dutch trading companies as knowledge networks

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Preliminary Material /S. Huigen , J. Jong and E. Kolfin -- Introduction /Siegfried Huigen -- Elias Herckmans. A Poet At The Borders Of Dutch Brazil /Britt Dams -- Officers Of The West India Company, Their Networks, And Their Personal Memories Of Dutch Brazil /Michiel Van Groesen -- The Butterfly Effect. Embodied Cognition And Perceptual Knowledge In Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium /Julie Berger Hochstrasser -- Picturing New Netherland And New York. Dutch-Anglo Transfer Of New World Information /Frans R.E. Blom -- Piracy And Play: Two Catholic Appropriations Of Nieuhof 's Gezantschap /Paul Arblaster -- Knowledge Transfer And Cultural Appropriation: Georg Everhard Rumphius's 'D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer' (1705) /Maria-Theresia Leuker -- Antiquarian Ambonese: François Valentyn's Comparative Ethnography (1724) /Siegfried Huigen -- Engelbert Kaempfer, Imamura Gen'Emon And Arai Hakuseki. An Early Exchange Of Knowledge Between Japan And The Netherlands /Henk De Groot -- Witsen's Studies Of Inner Eurasia /Bruno Naarden -- (Ex)changing Knowledge And Nature At The Cape Of Good Hope, Circa 1652–1700 /Alette Fleischer -- A Badly Harvested Field: The Growth Of Linguistic Knowledge And The Dutch Cape Colony Until 1796 /Hansn De Besten -- Writing History In The Age Of Discovery, According To La Popelinière, 16th–17th Centuries /Adrien Delmas -- The Model Of The VOC In Early Seventeenth-Century France (Hugo Grotius And Pierre Bergeron) /Grégoire Holtz -- 'Aus Den Fürnembsten Indianischen Reisebeschreibungen Zusammengezogen'. Knowledge About India In Early Modern Germany /Antje Flüchter -- The VOC And Swedish Natural History: The Transmission Of Scientific Knowledge In The Eighteenth Century /Christina Skott -- Unknown Unknowns. Ignorance Of The Indies Among Late Seventeenth-Century Scots /Elspeth Jajdelska -- Colonial Objects And The Display Of Power. The Curious Case Of The Cabinet Of William V And The Dutch India Companies /Edwin Van Meerkerk -- Index Nominum /S. Huigen , J. Jong and E. Kolfin.