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The Jewel house, Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution, Deborah E. Harkness

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The Jewel house, Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution, Deborah E. Harkness
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-329) and index
Illustrations
mapsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The Jewel house
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
80020134
Responsibility statement
Deborah E. Harkness
Sub title
Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution
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
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