The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
Autor Deborah E. Harknessen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 2008
Bestselling
author
Deborah
Harkness
(A
Discovery
of
Witches,
Shadow
of
Night)
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,
she
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 sixteenth-century London, 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.
The book examines six particularly fascinating episodes of scientific inquiry and dispute in sixteenth-century London, 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300143164
ISBN-10: 0300143168
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 20 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300143168
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 20 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
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Recenzii
".
.
.
Harkness
has
written
a
truly
wonderful
book,
deeply
researched,
full
of
original
material,
and
exhilarating
to
read.
Its
grown-up
realism
puts
to
shame
the
glamorised
pap
currently
spooned
out
on
film
and
television
as
a
depiction
of
16th-century
England."—John
Carey,The
Sunday
Times
"Through
a
deft
navigation
of
printed
book
and
manuscript
records
.
.
.
Harkness’s
book
succeeds
in
evoking
a
city
alive
with
the
pursuit
of
the
natural
world,
a
pursuit
infused
with
objects,
ideas
and
people
from
foreign
lands
.
.
.
she
listened
to
the
archives,
established
rapport
with
these
sources,
traced
the
connections
between
practitioners,
and
mapped
the
concepts
of
science
and
community
in
Elizabethan
London."—Lauren
Kassell,Times
Educational
Supplement
"Engaging.
.
.
.
In
a
series
of
case
studies,
Harkness
examines
evolving
communities
of
Elizabethan
students
of
nature.
The
themes
of
competition
and
collaboration,
print
culture
and
manuscript
networks,
useful
knowledge,
and
a
cosmopolitan
and
urban
sensibility
unite
impeccably
researched
episodes."—Science
"Marvelous.
.
.
.
Engaging,
thought-provoking
reading.
.
.
.
One
gets
a
wonderful
sense
of
the
time
and
place.
.
.
.
This
work
will
be
a
necessary
part
of
any
future
discussion
of
Elizabethan
science. .
.
.
Highly
recommended."—Choice
"Harkness's
writing
is
impressively
accessible,
making
for
one
of
the
most
readable
books
in
the
history
of
science
and
a
rare
treat
for
specialists
and
amateurs
alike.
.
.
.
This
is
an
inviting
and
enjoyable
book
that
provides
an
eye-opening
introduction
to
the
narrow
streets
and
broad
minds
of
Elizabethan
London
and
encourages
us
to
think
about
the
pursuit
of
natural
knowledge
as
a
long-term,
social
activity
that
binds
rather
than
divides
the
early modern
and
the
modern
worlds."—Allison
Kavey,Chemical
Heritage
"This
jewel
of
a
book
deserves
to
become
required
reading
for
all
students
of
early
modern
science.
.
.
.The
Jewel
Houseis
packed
with
new
information."—Penelope
Gouk,Isis
"Harkness
takes
her
readers
beyond
notable
figures
of
the
Scientific
Revolution
into
the
corners,
streets,
homes,
prisons,
and
workshops
of
London,
to
show
us
the
social
foundations
of
the
early
scientific
revolution.
.
.
.
This
is
a
very
important
book."—Antonio
Barrera-Osorio,Journal
of
British
Studies
"Based
on
an
impressive
command
of
archival,
print,
and
manuscript
sources,
Harkness
paints
compelling
and
humane
portraits
of
a
large
number
of
minor
or
largely
unknown
scientific
practitioners.
Not
only
is
this
volume
a
delight
to
read,
but
it
convinces
as
good
historical
discussions
should:
through
the
overwhelming
weight
of
meticulously
assembled
evidence.
.
.
.The
Jewel
Housewill
be
essential
reading
for
any
student
of
premodern
science
for
some
time.
It
makes
valuable
and
timely
contributions
to
the
history
of
science
both
in
its
larger
arguments
and
in
its
rich
and
detailed
examination
of individual
scientific
practitioners
and
the
world
in
which
they
lived."—Frank
Klaasen,Canadian
Journal
of
History
"Harkness'
rich
descriptive
study
of
this
seething
community
of
practitioners
and
students
of
nature
provides
a
vital
and
original
picture
of
a
community
of
scientists
whose
existence
was
obscured
by
later
developments
in
the
history
and
historiography
of
science.
Harkness
has
broadened
the
well-trodden
path
of
the
social
history
of
science
in
a
way
that
will
challenge
and
shape
any
future
efforts
to
describe
the
emergence
of
the
Scientific
Revolution.
.
.
.
[A]
splendid
book."—Lisa
T.
Sarasohn,Project
Muse
"A
fascinating
account
of
the
worlds
of
late-sixteenth-century
claimants
to
knowledge,
both
practical
and
speculative,
in
the
London
of
the
young
Francis
Bacon."—Peter
R.
Dear,Technology
and
Culture
".
.
.
Harkness
has
written
a
rich
and
detailed
history
of
scientific
practice
and
provides
a
fascinating
look
a
the
culture
of
science
in
Elizabethan
London."—Michael
R.
Lynn,Sixteenth
Century
Journal
".
.
.
a
delight
to
read
.
.
.
convinces
as
good
historical
discussions
should:
through
the
overwhelming
weight
of
meticulously
assembled
evidence.
.
.
.
essential
reading
for
any
student
of
premodern
science.
It
makes
valuable
and
timely
contributions
to
the
history
of
science
.
.
."—Frank
Klaasen,Canadian
Journal
of
History
".
.
.
vital
and
original.
.
.
.
Harkness
has
broadened
the
well-trodden
path
of
the
social
history
of
science
in
a
way
that
will
challenge
and
shape
any
future
efforts
to
describe
the
emergence
of
the
Scientific
Revolution.
.
.
.
[A]
splendid
book."—Lisa
T.
Sarasohn,Project
Muse
".
.
.
a
rich
and
fascinating
overview
of
the
wide
range
of
Londoners
who
were
energetically
investigating
nature
in
the
Elizabethan
era."—Robert
Shephard,Historian
"[A]
deft
archival
engagement.
.
.
.
[an]
engrossing
contribution."
—Margaret
D.
Garber,Historical
Studies
in
the
Natural
Sciences
Co-winner
of
the
2008
Pacific
Coast
Conference
on
British
Studies
Book
Prize
Winner
of
the
2008
John
Ben
Snow
Foundation
Prize
for
the
best
book
published
in
any
discipline
of
British
Studies
covering
the
period
from
1400-1800
Winner
of
the
Pfizer
Prize
for
Best
Book
in
the
History
of
Science
from
2005-2007,
presented
by
the
History
of
Science
Society
Highly
commended
for
the
2008
Longman/History
Today
Book
of
the
Year
Award
"This
is
the
book
on
Elizabethan
science
everyone
should
read.
Not
only
does
it
offer
a
convincing
reinterpretation
of
the
role
of
science
in
society,
but
it
is
written
in
an
arresting
style,
jaunty,
full
of
illuminating
anecdotes,
and
widely
accessible."—Ian
Archer,Oxford
University
"This
is
a
wonderful
book,
full
of
fascinating
detail
and
stories
from
a
lost
world.
It
will
have
wide
circulation
among
historians
of
science
and
technology,
historians
of
England,
and
cultural
historians
in
general."—Pamela
Smith,
Columbia
University
"The
Jewel
House
of
Art
and
Natureis
by
far
the
finest
exploration
ever
undertaken
of
scientific
culture
in
an
early
modern
metropolis.
Vivid,
compelling,
and
panoramic,
this
revelatory
work
will
force
us
to
revise
everything
we
thought
we
knew
about
Renaissance
science."—Adrian
Johns,
author
ofThe
Nature
of
the
Book
"In
this
vivid
portrait
of
the
scientific
practitioners
of
Elizabethan
London,
Deborah
Harkness
draws
on
extensive
archival
research
to
portray
the
city
as
a
crucial
source
of
social
and
scientific
innovation
and
inspiration
to
Francis
Bacon."—Ann
Blair,
Harvard
University
"Deborah
E.
Harkness's
The
Jewel
House:
Elizabethan
London
and
the
Scientific
Revolution
is
a
finely
written
and
informative
book.
.
.
.
No
one
interested
in
the
life
of
Elizabethan
London
.
.
.
will
find
it
less
than
engrossing."—Gordon
Teskey,
SEL
Studies
in
English
Literature
Notă biografică
Deborah E. Harkness is professor of history, University of Southern California. She is the author of John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature and of the New York Times bestseller A Discovery of Witches.
Descriere
Bestselling author Deborah Harkness (A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night) 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, she 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 sixteenth-century London, 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.
The book examines six particularly fascinating episodes of scientific inquiry and dispute in sixteenth-century London, 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.