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The Jewel House : Elizabethan London And The Scientific Revolution

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Deborah E. Harkness
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Book, Yale University Press, 2007
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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 practices set the stage for the Scientific Revolution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Science · England · London · History · 16th century · Natural history · Science, Renaissance · London (England) · Social conditions · Social life and customs · Intellectual life · Harkness, Deborah E., 1965-
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(UPPER LEVEL) Q127.G4 H37 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Q127.G4 H37 2007	AVAILABLE

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A Social History Of Truth : Civility And Science In Seventeenth-century England

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Steven Shapin
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Book, University of Chicago Press, 1995
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How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Science · Social aspects · England · History · 17th century · Moral and ethical aspects · Narmada River Valley (India) · Politics and government · Shapin, Steven
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(UPPER LEVEL) Q175.52.G7 S48 1995 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Q175.52.G7 S48 1995	AVAILABLE

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The Fly In The Cathedral

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Brian Cathcart
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Book, 1st American ed, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
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“Cathcart tells this exhilarating story with both verve and precision” –The Sunday Telegraph Re-creating the frustrations, excitements, and obsessions of 1932, the “miracle year” of British physics, Brian Cathcart reveals in rich detail the astonishing story behind the splitting of the atom. Each of the billions of atoms that comprise it is hollow, its true mass concentrated in a tiny nucleus that, if the atom were a cathedral, would be no bigger than a fly. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Rutherford, Ernest, · 1871-1937 · Walton, Ernest, · 1903-1995 · Scientists · England · Cambridge · Biography · Science · History · Nuclear fission · Radioactivity · Cathcart, Brian
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(UPPER LEVEL) Q141 .C2515 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Q141 .C2515 2005	AVAILABLE

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Newton And The Culture Of Newtonianism

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Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Margaret C. Jacob
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Book, Humanity Books, 1998
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Modern science emerged from seventeenth-century English society alongside another, equally extraordinary transformation - representative government. The figure of Isaac Newton and his science towered over the process, providing an overarching framework within which all other sciences of the age in turn developed. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Newton, Isaac, · Sir, · 1642-1727 · Science · England · History · 17th century · Physics · Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter, 1930- · Jacob, Margaret C., 1943-
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(UPPER LEVEL) QC16.N7 D66 1998 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QC16.N7 D66 1998	AVAILABLE

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Leviathan And The Air-pump : Hobbes, Boyle, And The Experimental Life : Including A Translation Of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus Physicus De Natura Aeris By Simon Schaffer

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Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer
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Book, 1st Princeton pbk. print. with corrections, Princeton University Press, 1989
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In the aftermath of the English Civil War, as people were groping for new forms of political order, Robert Boyle built an air-pump to do exper (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Hobbes, Thomas, · 1588-1679. · Leviathan · Boyle, Robert, · 1627-1691 · Air-pump · History · Physics · Experiments · Science · England · Shapin, Steven · Schaffer, Simon, 1955- · Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
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(UPPER LEVEL) QC166 .S47 1989 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QC166 .S47 1989	AVAILABLE

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The Nature Of The Book : Print And Knowledge In The Making

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Adrian Johns
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Book, University of Chicago Press, 1998
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In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas?commercial, intellectual, political, and individual. The richness of Mr. Johns’s book lies in the splendid detail he has collected to describe the world of books in the first two centuries after the printing press arrived in England.”?Alberto Manguel, Washington Times “[A] mammoth and stimulating account of the place of print in the history of knowledge. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Printing · Social aspects · Europe · History · England · Books · Transmission of texts · Science · Science publishing · Intellectual life · Johns, Adrian
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z124 .J64 1998 DUE 05-02-10

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Z124 .J64 1998	DUE 05-02-10

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William Blake In A Newtonian World : Essays On Literature As Art And Science

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by Stuart Peterfreund
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Book, University of Oklahoma Press, 1998
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Blake, William, · 1757-1827 · Knowledge · Science · Newton, Isaac, · Sir, · 1642-1727 · Influence · Literature and science · England · History · 18th century · Enlightenment · Peterfreund, Stuart
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR4148.S35 P48 1998 AVAILABLE

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Gehennical Fire : The Lives Of George Starkey, An American Alchemist In The Scientific Revolution

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William R. Newman
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Book, Harvard University Press, 1994
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Reputed to have performed miraculous feats in New England–restoring the hair and teeth to an aged lady, bringing a withered peach tree to fruit–Eirenaeus Philalethes was also rumored to be an adept possessor of the alchemical philosophers’ stone. Thanks in large part to the scholarly detective work of William Newman, we now know that this is only a small part of an extraordinary story, that in fact George Starkey led two lives. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Starkey, George, · 1627-1665 · Alchemists · England · Biography · Alchemy · History · Science · 17th century · Physicians · biography · United States · Newman, William R
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(UPPER LEVEL) QD24.S73 N49 1994 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QD24.S73 N49 1994	AVAILABLE

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Philosophy, Science, And Religion In England, 1640-1700

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edited by Richard Kroll, Richard Ashcraft, Perez Zagorin
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 1992
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This collection of essays looks at the distinctively English intellectual, social and political phenomenon of Latitudinarianism, which emerged during the Civil War and Interregnum and came into its own after the Restoration, becoming a virtual orthodoxy after 1688. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Latitudinarianism (Church of England) · Congresses · Cambridge Platonists · Philosophy, British · Science · England · History · 17th century · Intellectual life · Religion · Great Britain · Stuarts, 1603-1714 · Philosophy · Related to · Kroll, Richard W. F · Ashcraft, Richard · Zagorin, Perez
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(LOWER LEVEL) BX5126 .P48 1991 AVAILABLE

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The Great Devonian Controversy : The Shaping Of Scientific Knowledge Among Gentlemanly Specialists

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Martin J.S. Rudwick
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Book, University of Chicago Press, 1985
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[It] could become one of our century’s key documents in understanding science and its history.”?Stephen Jay Gould, New York Review of Books “Surely one of the most important studies in the history of science of recent years, and arguably the best work to date in the history of geology.”?David R. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Geology, Stratigraphic · Devonian · Science · History · Geology · England · Devon · Rudwick, M. J. S
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(UPPER LEVEL) QE665 .R83 1985 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QE665 .R83 1985	AVAILABLE

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The Darwinian Heritage : Including Proceedings Of The Charles Darwin Centenary Conference, Florence Center For The History And Philosophy Of Science, June 1982

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edited by David Kohn, with bibliographic assistance from Malcolm J. Kottler
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Book, Princeton University Press, in association with Nova Pacifica, 1985
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Darwin, Charles, · 1809-1882 · Congresses · Naturalists · England · Biography · Evolution · congresses · Science · history · biography · Kohn, David, 1941- · Kottler, Malcolm J · Charles Darwin Centenary Conference (1982 : Florence Center for the History and Philosophy of Science)
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(UPPER LEVEL) QH31.D2 D385 1985 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QH31.D2 D385 1985	AVAILABLE

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Science And Education In The Seventeenth Century: The Webster-Ward Debate,

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by Allen G. Debus
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Book, Macdonald & Co, 1970
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Education · Early works to 1800 · history · England · Science · Universities · Debus, Allen G · Webster, John, 1610-1682 · Ward, Seth, 1617-1689 · Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665
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(LOWER LEVEL) LA116 .D4 1970 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	LA116 .D4 1970	AVAILABLE

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Science And Society In Restoration England

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Michael Hunter
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 1981
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Science · England · History · Social aspects · Hunter, Michael Cyril William
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(UPPER LEVEL) Q127.G4 H85 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Q127.G4 H85	AVAILABLE

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Science In Culture : The Early Victorian Period

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Susan Faye Cannon
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Book, Science History Publications, 1978
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Science · England · History · Physics · Cannon, Susan Faye
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(UPPER LEVEL) Q127.G4 C36 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Q127.G4 C36	AVAILABLE

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Social Change And Scientific Organization : The Royal Institution, 1799-1844

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Morris Berman
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Book, Cornell University Press, 1978
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Faraday, Michael, · 1791-1867 · Royal Institution of Great Britain · Science · Social aspects · England · Great Britain · Economic conditions · 1760-1860 · Industries · History · Berman, Morris, 1944-
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(UPPER LEVEL) Q41.R88 B47 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Q41.R88 B47	AVAILABLE

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