The Jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution / Deborah E. Harkness.

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007], ©2007.

xviii, 349 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-329) and index.

Prelude: London, 1600 : the view from somewhere -- Living on Lime street : "English" natural history and the European republic of letters -- The contest over medical authority : Valentine Russwurin and the barber-surgeons -- Educating Icarus and displaying Daedalus : mathematics and instrumentation in Elizabethan London -- "Big science" in Elizabethan London -- Clement Draper's prison notebooks : reading, writing, and doing science -- From the Jewel house to Salomon's house : Hugh Plat, Francis Bacon, and the social foundations of the scientific revolution -- Coda: Toward an ethnography of early modern science.