The Jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution

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The Jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution

Title remainder

Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution

Statement of responsibility

Deborah E. Harkness

Creator

• Harkness, Deborah E., 1965-

Subject

• Electronic books
• England
• England -- London
• HISTORY -- Europe | Great Britain
• History
• Intellectual life
• Lebensbedingungen
• London
• London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
• London (England) -- Social conditions -- 16th century
• London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 16th century
• Manners and customs
• 1500-1599
• Natural history
• Natural history -- England | London -- History -- 16th century
• SCIENCE -- History
• Science
• Science -- England | London -- History -- 16th century
• Science, Renaissance
• Science, Renaissance
• Social conditions
• Wissenschaft
• Natur

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"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 develop the ideals of modern scientific research." "The book examines six particularly fascinating episodes of scientific inquiry and dispute in the London of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, bringing to life the individuals involved and the challenges they faced. These men and women experimented and invented, argued and competed, waged wars in the press, and struggled to understand the complexities of the natural world. Together their stories illuminate the blind alleys and surprising twists and turns taken as medieval philosophy gave way to the empirical, experimental culture that became a hallmark of the Scientific Revolution."--Jacket

Cataloging source

N$T

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography