Acknowledgements

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

List of Illustrations

Introduction (Siegfried Huigen)

THE AMERICAS

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)

ASIA

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)

SOUTH AFRICA

(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 (Hans den Besten)

EUROPE

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)

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