Not just a few elite scientists, but Londoners from all walks of
life--lawyers, prisoners, midwives, merchants--participated in the
scientific community of Elizabethan times 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.
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