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The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution

The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution

Harkness, Deborah E.

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ISBN10: 0300143168
ISBN13: 9780300143164
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Oct 1 2008
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Not just a few elite scientists, but Londoners from all walks of life--lawyers, prisoners, midwives, merchants--participated in the scientific community of Elizabethan times

Bestselling author Deborah Harkness (A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night) 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, she 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.

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