The Jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution /

Main Author: Harkness, Deborah E., 1965-
Format: Book
Published: New Haven: Yale University Press, c2007
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Table of 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.