By Deborah E. Harkness
Bestselling writer Deborah Harkness (A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night) explores the streets, outlets, again alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, the place a boisterous and numerous staff of guys and ladies shared a willing curiosity within the research of nature. those varied retailers, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, device makers, arithmetic lecturers, engineers, alchemists, and different experimenters, she contends, shaped a patchwork medical group whose practices set the degree for the clinical Revolution. whereas Francis Bacon has been broadly considered as the daddy of recent technology, rankings of his London contemporaries additionally deserve a proportion during this contrast. It was once their collaborative, but frequently contentious, ethos that helped to advance the beliefs of recent clinical learn. The booklet examines six relatively interesting episodes of medical inquiry and dispute in sixteenth-century London, bringing to existence the contributors concerned and the demanding situations they confronted. those women and men experimented and invented, argued and competed, waged wars within the press, and struggled to appreciate the complexities of the flora and fauna. jointly their tales remove darkness from the blind alleys and spectacular twists and turns taken as medieval philosophy gave technique to the empirical, experimental tradition that turned a trademark of the medical Revolution.
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And because many of them were immigrants, some members of the community are left out of narratives about the development of "English" science. To fully understand the significance of the Lime Street naturalists, however, we must see them as they saw themselves: as an important community interested in natural history with links to other naturalists in England and on the European continent. To do so, we need first to understand how the community was constituted and how it functioned. Then we will be in a better position to examine their intellectual interests and the debates they engaged in with other leading naturalists at home and abroad.
Who would be willing to spend so much money on a book that they could not rely upon to accurately identify common medicinal plants and the more exotic plant specimens pouring into London from the New World and beyond? Garret's observations that there were mistranslations of the Flemish herbal that served as Gerard's source, that the illustrations of plant specimens did not always appear alongside the correct descriptions, and that some illustrations were even inserted upside down had the potential to cut the Nortons' audience dramatically and make them a public laughingstock.
The international character of Elizabethan science makes it remarkably similar to other cosmopolitan areas of early modern Europe, such as Florence, Prague, and Leiden. Like their European counterparts, men and women interested in the study of nature and living in London in the sixteenth century could find a wealth of new ideas and approaches right on their own street, as well as by communicating with friends and relatives abroad. London also provided the Lime Street community, and other communities like it, with sufficient economic opportunity that they could engage in the work of the natural sciences without needing to seek out patrons for their financial survival.
