The Idea of Property in Seventeenth-Century England: Tithes and the Individual. By Laura Brace. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. vii + 184 pp. $79.95 cloth.

1999 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 719-721
Author(s):  
Cynthia Herrup
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
Early Modern Britain ◽  
The Individual

Science, Instruments, and Guilds in Early-Modern Britain

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Instrument Making ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
International Demand ◽  
Early Modern Britain

AbstractThe emergence of instrument-making trades in early-modern England tested the power of established guilds. From the seventeenth century, instrument makers were able to exploit growing markets for scientific apparatus and attempted to exploit connections with the Royal Society. Given the growth in both local and international demand, and in new methods of manufacture, instrument makers were frequently able to evade the diminishing power of guilds to police the efforts of the makers.

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