Prelude: London, 1600 : the view from somewhere -- Living on Lime street : "English" natural history and the European republic of letters -- The contest over medical authority : Valentine Russwurin and the barber-surgeons -- Educating Icarus and displaying Daedalus : mathematics and instrumentation in Elizabethan London -- "Big science" in Elizabethan London -- Clement Draper's prison notebooks : reading, writing, and doing science -- 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 modern science.