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Hilversum: State of New York University Press and Verloren, 2003). For a thoroughly readable general book see R. Shorto, The Island at the Centre of the World: The Untold Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Founding of New York (New York: Doubleday, 2004).

3 Jacobs, New Netherland, p.475.

4 Cit. Shorto, The Island at the Centre of the World, pp.63–4.

5 Jacobs, New Netherland, p.373.

6 Ibid., p.93.

7 Ibid., p.143.

8 For a full account see ibid., passim.

9 Captain Robert Holmes his Journalls of Two Voyages into Guynea in his M[ajestie]’s Ships the Henrietta and the Jersey, Pepys Library Sea MSS. No. 2698, p.168.

10 J.D. Davies, ‘Holmes, Sir Robert (c.1622–1692)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com.catalogue.ulrls. lon.ac.uk:80/view/article/13600, accessed 4 June 2007]. On the canard that it was Holmes who actually attacked and took New Amsterdam see C.H. Wilson, ‘Who captured New Amsterdam?’, English Historical Review 72 (1957), 469–74.

11 Cit. J. Scott, ‘“Good night Amsterdam”: Sir George Downing and Anglo–Dutch state-building’, English Historical Review 118 (2003), 334–56; 346.

12 Ibid., pp.346–7.

13 Shorto, Island at the Centre of the World, p.330.

14 M. Kurlansky, The Big Oyster: New York in the World, A Molluscular History (London: Jonathan Cape, 2006), p.37.

15 Antonivaz, 9 May 1642. Worp, letter 2996.

16 See C. Lesger, The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c. 1550–1630 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).

17 T. Sprat, The history of the Royal-Society of London for the improving of natural knowledge (London, 1667), p.401.

18 Cit. M. ‘T Hart, ‘Cities and statemaking in the Dutch Republic, 1580–1680’, Theory and Society 18 (1989), 663–87; 663.

19 Cit. ibid., p.674.

20 Cit. ibid., p.679.

21 Lesger, Rise of the Amsterdam Market, p.224.

22 H.J. Cook, Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007). See also H. J. Cook, ‘Time’s bodies: crafting the preparation and preservation of naturalia’, in P.H. Smith and P. Findlen (eds), Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 2002), pp.223–47, and ‘The cutting edge of a revolution? Medicine and natural history near the shores of the North Sea’, in J.V. Field and F.A.J.L. James (eds), Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp.45–61.

23 L. Neal, ‘Venture shares in the Dutch East India Company’, draft paper, ‘prepared for the Yale School of Management Conference of Interest and Enterprise: Essays in Financial Innovation March 6 & 7, 2003, Yale University’ (consulted online).

24 This account of the VOC and its economic significance is based on J. de Vries and A. van der Woude, The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500–1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp.382–96 and 457–64.

25 Ibid., p.385.

26 W. Temple, Miscellanea…by a person of honour (London: E. Gellibrand, 1680), pp.204–5.

27 Ibid., pp.214–15.

28 See H.J. Cook, Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007), pp.349–77.

29 Cit. ibid., p.371.

30 Wilhelmi ten Rhyne M.D. &c., Transisalano-Daventriensis Dissertatio de arthritide: Mantissa schematica: De acupunctura: et Orationes tres, I. De chymiæ ac botaniæ antiquitate & dignitate. II. De physiognomia: III. De monstris. Singula ipsius authoris notis illustrata (London, 1683). For more on this treatise see R.W. Carrubba and J.Z. Bowers, ‘The western world’s first detailed treatise on acupuncture: Willem Ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura’, Journal of the History of Medicine 29 (1974), 371–98.

31 For the Anglo–Dutch

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