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by Deborah E. Harkness

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Deborah E. Harkness

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This is the book on Elizabethan science everyone should read. The Jewel House of Art and Nature is by far the finest exploration ever undertaken of scientific culture in an early modern metropolis.

This is the book on Elizabethan science everyone should read. ―Ian Archer, Oxford University. This is a wonderful book, full of fascinating detail and stories from a lost world. Vivid, compelling, and panoramic, this revelatory work will force us to revise everything we thought we knew about Renaissance science. -Adrian Johns, author of The Nature of the Book.

The Jewel House book. The Jewel House tells us stories of everyday naturalists, engineers, alchemists and tinkerers who populated Elizabethan London at the dawn of the Scientific Revolution

The Jewel House book. The Jewel House tells us stories of everyday naturalists, engineers, alchemists and tinkerers who populated Elizabethan London at the dawn of the Scientific Revolution. Harkness does an amazing job of compiling scraps of information from diverse sources about these characters into a vivid and engaging narrative. This is a work of history admirable both for its scholarly contributions and its I really want to visit Deborah Harkness's London, and her writing is so strong that I feel I almost have.

Deborah E. Harkness boldly defines this ferment ‘vernacular science’. and methods of Elizabethan vernacular scientists. The book is a fascinating Wunderkammer of particulars. Behind it, however, unfolds a broader agenda. For science, she argues, was how these activities would have been called at the time, if at all; and vernacular in virtue of their broad appeal and utilitarian quality.

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. Harkness is associate professor of history, University of Southern California, and the . How wonderful to see an ethnography of Elizabethan London's science

Deborah E. Harkness is associate professor of history, University of Southern California, and the author of John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature. How wonderful to see an ethnography of Elizabethan London's science. 88 people found this helpful.

The book examines six particularly fascinating episodes of scientific inquiry and dispute in sixteenth-century London, bringing to life the individuals . Deborah E. Harkness is professor of history, University of Southern California.

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. 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. Библиографические данные.

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Harkness released a companion book in May 2018 entitled The World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to A. .The Jewel house of art and nature: Elizabethan London and the social foundations of the scientific revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Harkness released a companion book in May 2018 entitled The World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy), The All Souls Trilogy - Time's Convert in September 2018, set in the same universe and featuring secondary characters. Harkness, Deborah E. (Spring 2008). A view from the streets: women and medical work in Elizabethan London". Harkness's new book opens up the world of what she calls "vernacular science" in late sixteenth-century London. These were the people who traded plant and insect specimens, examined exotic minerals, peddled herbal and chemical remedies for Londoners' ailments, sold almanacs and surveying instruments, worked with metals to try to make gold, and promoted voyages to the New World.

Deborah Harkness, a professor in the University of Southern California, denies neither of these assertions, but she feels that there is another story. Sunday 4 November 2007 01:00.

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.

Rainbearer

As an anthropologist, I was reading this book with delight, and thinking it was just like an ethnography--to find that at the end she describes it as "an ethnography of early modern science," and cites such ethnographic luminaries as George Marcus and Bruno Latour. Indeed, this is a look at the actual culture of scientific and technical discovery in London in Elizabeth I's time. It is a real eye-opener. London at the time was swarming with technologists, herbalists, medical investigators, and every sort of inventor--not to speak of quacks, con artists and mountebanks pretending to be all of the above. The search for knowledge was downright frantic. Those of us who knew only a little about the history of early modern science knew only a tiny thin thread of this--a bit of Bacon (she cuts him down to size!) and a few others.
It is striking to compare London with China at approximately the same time; Benjamin Elman, William Rowe, and others have shown a similar and equally little-known ferment there, but even their best efforts don't seem to show as much sheer originality, inventiveness, and wild-eyed experimentation in Chinese cities as London had. China never quite made the breakthrough to modern science until the 20th century. London--and, Ogilvie reminds us, the whole "republic of letters" all over Europe--had a culture of scientific advance rooted in trades, crafts, mining, brewing, fish trapping, bird snaring, everything. People were trying every new scheme to produce more.
Alchemy and astrology receive due respect here. In those days, everyone knew that metallurgy could make amazing transformations; no one knew that gold, silver, etc. were primary elements that simply could not be easily transformed into each other. (People were just beginning to realize that "earth, air, fire, water" wasn't a fully adequate list of elements.) Similarly, everyone knew the sun influenced every living thing, and the moon ruled the tides; logic and common sense brought everyone to the inescapable conclusion that the other heavenly bodies must be influencing us too. The failure of alchemy and astrology was not the failure of "pseudoscience" but the triumph of reality over logic and reason--a triumph we see today, every day, as the most reasonable economic and political predictions go down in flames, ruined by human cussedness. It would be decades before Boyle could be a successfully "skeptical chemist" building on experimental proof of alchemy's failure.
Early modern science was a wonderful, exciting world. I came to it after a lifetime of ethnographic research on traditional knowledge of plants and animals--in China, indigenous North America, and elsewhere. How wonderful to see an ethnography of Elizabethan London's science.
For the future, one recommendation to ethnographers of early science: Look at Charles Frake's LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL DESCRIPTION as well as Latour, Marcus, et al. Frake still does the best job of explaining how to study nonwestern and traditional scientific/technical knowledge.

Snake Rocking

Fascinating and detailed study of the emergence of science, the scientific method as exemplified by the doctors, astrologers, mathematicians and craftsmen of Elizabethan England. Harkness zeroes in on specific professions and educates a lay reader about the complexities of day-to-day life of colorful personalities tiny neighborhoods and hearty stew of religious conflict and political chicanery. Brilliant period recreation and indepth analysis of the then "state of the art" of medicine, astronomy, nautical instruments and time keeping devices. A wealth of information in readable prose that brings the brilliance of the varied minds of the Elizabethan era.

Rolling Flipper

This is not a light tome, it is a factual account intended for a higher education audience. Having said that, somehow Ms. Harkness' style comes through and she is always an enjoyable author. Rather than a "fun" read, this is useful for those of us fascinated with Elizabethan London, particularly if we also plan to write about the subject.

Zolorn

yes yes yes

Pooker

Creative analysis of the history of scientific inquiry. Occasionally repetitive, but the unique perspective and insights make it worth reading.

Freaky Hook

A charming read.

GEL

If the history of science is one of your hobbies, this book will be a great addition to your library. We've all heard about Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, but this book is about so many people in Elizabethan London who contibuted to the Scientific Revolution, but that I'd not heard of.

I love to read non fiction that encompasses the history of science. This was a treasure trove of a specific time and place in the history of scientific methods and achievements. Not great discoveries but the day to day discoveries that made the big ones possible. I enjoyed the book.

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