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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harkness, Deborah, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.