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

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 349 pages) : illustrations, map 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 Summary "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 practices set the stage for the Scientific Revolution. While Francis Bacon has been widely regarded as the father of modern science, scores of his London contemporaries also deserve a share in this distinction. It was their collaborative, yet often contentious, ethos that helped to develop the ideals of modern scientific research." "The book examines six particularly fascinating episodes of scientific inquiry and dispute in the London of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, bringing to life the individuals involved and the challenges they faced. These men and women experimented and invented, argued and competed, waged wars in the press, and struggled to understand the complexities of the natural world. Together their stories illuminate the blind alleys and surprising twists and turns taken as medieval philosophy gave way to the empirical, experimental culture that became a hallmark of the Scientific Revolution."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-329) and index Notes Print version record Subject Science -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century Natural history -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century Science, Renaissance. SCIENCE -- History. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Intellectual life Manners and customs Natural history Science Science, Renaissance Social conditions Lebensbedingungen Wissenschaft Natur Vetenskap -- historia -- England -- London -- 1500-talet. Naturvetenskap -- historia -- England -- London -- 1500-talet. SUBJECT London (England) -- Social conditions -- 16th century London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078222 London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078214 Subject England -- London London England London -- sociala förhållanden -- historia -- 1500-talet. London -- vardagsliv och traditioner -- historia -- 1500-talet. London -- intellektuellt liv -- historia -- 1500-talet. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300185751 0300185758

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