The Jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution / Deborah E. Harkness.

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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, engine...

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Main Author: Harkness, Deborah, 1965-
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007], ©2007.
Subjects:
Science > England > London > History > 16th century.
Natural history > England > London > History > 16th century.
Science, Renaissance.
London (England) > Social conditions > 16th century.
London (England) > Social life and customs > 16th century.
London (England) > Intellectual life > 16th century.
SCIENCE > History.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Intellectual life.
Manners and customs.
Natural history.
Science.
Social conditions.
England > London.
Lebensbedingungen.
Wissenschaft.
Natur.
London.
England.
1500-1599
Electronic books.
History.
Genre:
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (JSTOR)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 349 pages) : illustrations, map
Format: Electronic eBook
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.