The Jewel House Explained

The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution is a history of 16th-century London by American scholar Deborah Harkness. It explores the alchemical community of London in the 16th century, focusing on key figures from the time period whose accomplishments led to the Scientific Revolution.[1] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1821 libraries.[2] The book was published in 2007 by Yale University Press.[3]

Reviews

The book was reviewed in Science;[4] Times Literary Supplement;[5] American Scientist;[6] Technology and Culture;[7] Bulletin of the History of Medicine;[8] ISIS;[9] Annals of Science;[10] Canadian Journal of History,.;[11] Renaissance Quarterly,;[12] Journal of Modern History;[13] History;[14] American Historical Review;[15] Renaissance Studies;[16] Journal of British Studies;[17] and Journal of Interdisciplinary History [18]

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Notes and References

  1. Harkness, Deborah. The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution.New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
  2. http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n98074390 WorldCat author listing
  3. Web site: Deborah E. Harkness. The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. February 2008 . Humanities & Social Sciences Online. 13 November 2014.
  4. Review by N S Popper Science 319, no. 5859, (January 4, 2008): 34
  5. Review by Lauren Kassell, TLS, the Times literary supplement. (March 06, 2009): 3
  6. Review by Anthony Grafton, American Scientist, v96 n2 (20080301): 156-158
  7. review by Peter Robert Dear Technology and Culture, 49, no. 3 (2008): 793-794
  8. review by Stephen Pumfrey, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 84, no. 1 (2010): 125-126
  9. review by Penelope Gouk, Isis. 99, no. 2, (2008): 395
  10. review by W Shea, Annals of Science 66, no. 3, (2009): 439-441
  11. review >by F Klaassen Canadian Journal of History, 43, no. 2, (2008): 293-294
  12. Review by N H Clulee, Renaissance Quarterly, 61, no. 2, (2008): 634
  13. Review by M Feingold, Journal of Modern History, 81, no. 4, (2009): 939-941
  14. Review by Michael Hunter History, 94, no. 313 (2009): 98-99
  15. Review by Jonathan Barry, American Historical Review 114, no. 1, (2009): 205
  16. Review by Valentina Pugliano Renaissance Studies, v23 n3 (June 2009): 390-391
  17. Review by Antonio Barrera-Osorio, Journal of British Studies, v47 n04 (20081021): 925-926
  18. Review by Lisa T Sarasohn Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 39, no. 3 (2009): 413-414
  19. "Yale University Press." (06 February 2014).Yale University Press

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