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Deborah E. HarknessPublication Details
BookYale University Press2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Q127.G4 H37 2007 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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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)Subject
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
ISBN
- 9780300111965
- 0300111967
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