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The Jewel House.('The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution')(Brief article)(Book review)
In this exploration of Elizabethan London's burgeoning scientific community, Harkness demonstrates how an assortment of barber-surgeons, midwives, and alchemists who, along with hundreds of laymen and women, took a "vernacular approach to experimental practice" laid the groundwork for the scientific revolution of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. On the city's bustling streets, open collaboration across disciplines flourished. Hugh Plat, a London lawyer, in 1594 published a ...
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