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Best-selling author Deborah E. Harkness explores the roads, shops, back alleys, and landscapes of Elizabethan London, in which a boisterous and diverse band of men and women shared an enthusiastic interest in the study of aspect. These assorted retailers, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, tool makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, alchemists, and other experimenters, she contends, formed a patchwork methodical community whose routines set the stage for the Scientific Revolution. It had been their collaborative, yet often contentious, ethos that helped to develop the ideals of modern methodical research. The Jewel House examines six especially fascinating episodes of methodical inquiry and dispute in 16th-century London, delivering alive the individuals involved and the challenges they confronted. These men and women experimented and invented, argued and competed, waged wars in the press, and struggled to comprehend the complexities of the natural world. Jointly, their stories illuminate the blind alleys and unusual twists and becomes taken as middle ages philosophy offered way to the empirical, experimental culture that became a hallmark of the Scientific Revolution.
