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

Author/creator Harkness, Deborah, 1965-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press,
Descriptionxviii, 349 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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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.

Contents Prelude: 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 -- Coda: Toward an ethnography of early modern science.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-329) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2007002683
ISBN9780300111965 (alk. paper)
ISBN0300111967 (alk. paper)