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Nature 452, 937-938 (24 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452937a; Published online 23 April 2008
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Abstract
Stories of seventeeth-century scientists and aristocrats show how Dutch ingenuity benefited England.
BOOK REVIEWED-Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory
by Lisa Jardine
HarperPress: 2008. 400 pp. $35, £25
History is often told from a national perspective, but big ideas usually have cross-border entanglements. Lisa Jardine's carefully crafted and highly readable book describes how people and concepts from the Netherlands percolated English high culture in the seventeenth century, influencing early science.
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