''The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution'' is a history of 16th-century

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by American scholar

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. It explores the alchemical community of London in the 16th century, focusing on key figures from the time period whose accomplishments led to a

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.Harkness, Deborah. ''The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution.''New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. According to

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Awards

* Winner of the 2008 John Ben Snow Foundation Prize for the best book published in any discipline of British Studies covering the period from 1400-1800. * Winner of the Pfizer Prize for Best Book in the History of Science from 2005-2007."Yale University Press." (06 February 2014
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