The Jewel House
Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of A Discovery of Witchesexamines the real-life history of the scientific community of Elizabethan London.Travel to 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 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 sc…
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- ISBN: 978-0-300-18575-1
- EAN: 9780300185751
- Produktnummer: 33541784
- Verlag: Yale University Press (Ignition)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 376 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'055 KB
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