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The Jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution

Author: Deborah E Harkness
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, Barber-Surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, alchemists, and other experimenters, Deborah Harkness contends, formed a patchwork scientific community whose  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Deborah E Harkness
ISBN: 9780300111965 0300111967 9780300143164 0300143168
OCLC Number: 80020134
Description: xviii, 349 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents: London, 1600 : the view from somewhere --
Living on Lime street : "English" natural history and the European republic of letters --
The contest over medical authority : Valentine Russwurin and the barber-surgeons --
Educating Icarus and displaying Daedalus : mathematics and instrumentation in Elizabethan London --
"Big science" in Elizabethan London --
Clement Draper's prison notebooks : reading, writing, and doing science --
From the Jewel house to Salomon's house : Hugh Plat, Francis Bacon, and the social foundations of the scientific revolution --
Toward an ethnography of early modern science.
Responsibility: Deborah E. Harkness.
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Explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. This book examines six  Read more...

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