The Jewel House; Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
In 1600 the City's residents still clung tenaciously to London's Roman foundations, the uneven stone walls that encompassed roughly a square mile of territory on the north bank of the Thames. Yet the steady influx of people forced London to push relentlessly outward, and suburban sprawl began to encompass lands that had been gardens (such as the open fields to the west that would in the next centuries be developed into the residential and shopping district Covent Garden), industrial areas ...
