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Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West

Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West

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Technology & EngineeringSports GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0195082192
ISBN13: 9780195082197
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 2 1997
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book seeks to explain the historical process by which in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries scientific knowledge became an integral part of the culture of Europe and how this in turn led to the Industrial Revolution. Comparative in structure, Jacob explains why England was so much more successful at this transition than its continental counterparts.

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