Jewel House Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution

Name: Jewel House Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
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ISBN: 9780300143164

ISBN-10: 0300143168

ISBN-13: 9780300143164

Edition: 2008

Authors: Deborah E. Harkness

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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…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/28/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 0.67" wide x 0.93" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English