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Harkness, Deborah E., 1965-
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Science -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century.
Natural history -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century.
Science, Renaissance.
London (England) -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
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Harkness, Deborah E., 1965-
Science -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century.
Natural history -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century.
Science, Renaissance.
London (England) -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
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The Jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution / Deborah E. Harkness.
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Harkness, Deborah E., 1965-
Yale University Press, c2007.
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.421
H282j
Subjects
Science -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century.
Natural history -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century.
Science, Renaissance.
London (England) -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
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9780300111965 (alk. paper)
0300111967 (alk. paper)
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xviii, 349 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-329) and index.
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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