The Jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution /
"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, e...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.