1. Regarding the transfer of knowledge from and to the Dutch Republic, see e.g. Inger Leemans, Jan Konst and Bettina Noak (eds), Niederländisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen 1600-1830 (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2009); Siegfried Huigen, Jan L. de Jong and Elmer Kolfin (eds), The Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks (Leiden: Brill, 2010).