Entrepreneurial science is not new; business interests have strongly influenced science since the Scientific Revolution. In "Commercial Visions," Daniel Margocsy illustrates that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded natural history and medicinethe big sciences of the early modern eraand argues that the growth of global trade during the Dutch Golden Age gave rise to an entrepreneurial network of transnational science.
Margocsy introduces a number of natural historians, physicians, and "curiosi" in Amsterdam, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris who, in their...