TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harkness,Deborah E.
TI  - The Jewel house: Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution 
SN  - 9780300185751
AV  - Q127.G4 H37 2007eb
U1  - 509.421/09031 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Science
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Science, Renaissance
KW  - Sciences
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Londres
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 16e siècle
KW  - Sciences naturelles
KW  - Sciences de la Renaissance
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Lebensbedingungen
KW  - gnd
KW  - Wissenschaft
KW  - Natur
KW  - Vetenskap
KW  - historia
KW  - 1500-talet
KW  - sao
KW  - Naturvetenskap
KW  - London (England)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Londres (Angleterre)
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - sociala förhållanden
KW  - vardagsliv och traditioner
KW  - intellektuellt liv
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-329) and index; 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
N2  - "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
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