The Jewel House by Deborah E. Harkness
March 8, 2010
This book describes a community of Natural Scientists living in Elizabethan London:
“..behind garden walls , inside the apothecary shops, and within the well appointed houses of the merchants lived an important community of naturalists. Lime Street was the English outpost of a Europe-wide network of students of nature- including plant hunters, gardeners, rock and fossil collectors, and scholars interested in animals and insects- who eagerly studied the marvelous and manifold properties of the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms.”
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