The Jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution
Record details
- ISBN: 0300185758
- ISBN: 9780300185751
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 349 pages) : illustrations, map
remote - Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-329) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- Toward an ethnography of early modern science. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |