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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.
作者简介
Deborah E. Harkness is professor of history, University of Southern California. 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.
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Interesting and informative, though a little unfair to Bacon? (就像我黑班固一样 LOL) PS. 给tutor看准备写的伦敦1550-1700之间social dynamics of science的bibliography里他最力荐的一本。借来后读到1/3时偶然看了眼封底才发现四个短推里第一条就是他的。。。（贵圈真小
评分Interesting and informative, though a little unfair to Bacon? (就像我黑班固一样 LOL) PS. 给tutor看准备写的伦敦1550-1700之间social dynamics of science的bibliography里他最力荐的一本。借来后读到1/3时偶然看了眼封底才发现四个短推里第一条就是他的。。。（贵圈真小
评分Interesting and informative, though a little unfair to Bacon? (就像我黑班固一样 LOL) PS. 给tutor看准备写的伦敦1550-1700之间social dynamics of science的bibliography里他最力荐的一本。借来后读到1/3时偶然看了眼封底才发现四个短推里第一条就是他的。。。（贵圈真小
评分Interesting and informative, though a little unfair to Bacon? (就像我黑班固一样 LOL) PS. 给tutor看准备写的伦敦1550-1700之间social dynamics of science的bibliography里他最力荐的一本。借来后读到1/3时偶然看了眼封底才发现四个短推里第一条就是他的。。。（贵圈真小
评分Interesting and informative, though a little unfair to Bacon? (就像我黑班固一样 LOL) PS. 给tutor看准备写的伦敦1550-1700之间social dynamics of science的bibliography里他最力荐的一本。借来后读到1/3时偶然看了眼封底才发现四个短推里第一条就是他的。。。（贵圈真小
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