Ingenious Pursuits by Lisa Jardine
Building the Scientific Revolution
Set in Restoration London, the book traces how a lively circle of virtuosi and practitioners—including figures like Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren and Robert Boyle—turned private curiosity into systematic experimental inquiry, blending craftsmanship, commerce, civic ambitions and patronage. It follows the formation of networks and institutions such as the Royal Society, showing how instruments, correspondence, demonstrations and the demands of navigation, architecture and industry made scientific knowledge a public, collaborative, and practical enterprise rather than merely a speculative one.
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- 2004
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