Publication
Yale University Press (2007), 349 pages
ISBN
9780300185751
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Conventions
A Note About “Science”
Prelude. London, 1600: The View from Somewhere
1. Living on Lime Street: “English” Natural History and the European Republic of Letters
2. The Contest over Medical Authority: Valentine Russwurin and the Barber Surgeons
3. Educating Icarus and Displaying Daedalus: Mathematics and Instrumentation in Elizabethan London
4. “Big Science” in Elizabethan London
5. Clement Draper’s Prison Notebooks: Reading, Writing, and Doing Science
6. 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
Acknowledgments
Conventions
A Note About “Science”
Prelude. London, 1600: The View from Somewhere
1. Living on Lime Street: “English” Natural History and the European Republic of Letters
2. The Contest over Medical Authority: Valentine Russwurin and the Barber Surgeons
3. Educating Icarus and Displaying Daedalus: Mathematics and Instrumentation in Elizabethan London
4. “Big Science” in Elizabethan London
5. Clement Draper’s Prison Notebooks: Reading, Writing, and Doing Science
6. 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