Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- A Note About "Science" -- Prelude. London, 1600: The View from Somewhere -- ONE: Living on Lime Street: "English" Natural History and the European Republic of Letters -- TWO: The Contest over Medical Authority: Valentine Russwurin and the Barber-Surgeons -- THREE: Educating Icarus and Displaying Daedalus: Mathematics and Instrumentation in Elizabethan London -- FOUR: "Big Science" in Elizabethan London -- FIVE: Clement Draper's Prison Notebooks: Reading, Writing, and Doing Science -- SIX: From the Jewel House to Salomon's House: Hugh Plat, Francis Bacon, and the Social Foundations of the Scientific Revolution -- Coda: Toward an Ethnography of Early Modem Science -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.