Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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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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Utgivningsdatum1997-01-02
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagOxford University Press Inc
ISBN9780195082203

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Introduction I. Intellectual Foundations 1: The New Science and its New Audience 2: The Cultural Meaning of Cartesianism: From the Self to Nature (and Back to the State) 3: Science in the Crucible of the English Revolution 4: The Newtonian Enlightenment II. Cultural and Social Foundations 5: The Cultural Origins of the First Industrial Revolution 6: The Watts, Entrepreneurs 7: Scientific Education and Industrialization in Continental Europe 8: French Industry and Engineers under Absolutism and Revolution 9: How Science Worked in Industrial Moments: Case Studies from Britain Notes Bibliography Index

"There has been a crying need for instructors of Western Civilization to find readable texts that incorporate the rise of science into the traditional historical curriculum. Margaret C. Jacob has now produced such a work linking the Scientific Revolution to the Industrial Revolution ... written with verve and hewn from much new archival evidence." --American Historical Review"There has been a crying need for instructors of Western Civilization to find readable texts that incorporate the rise of science into the traditional historical curriculum. Margaret C. Jacob has now produced such a work linking the Scientific Revolution to the Industrial Revolution ... written with verve and hewn from much new archival evidence." --American Historical Review"[T]his new work...is a significantly expanded and improved version that fills a major vacuum...Jacob 'treats culture as a structure in its own right, found in the mind, but also encoded in the objects available to people or invented by human ingenuity (pg 3)."--American Historical Review, December 2000"[S]uperb history of the impact of Newton's Principia on social thought and...industrialization in Europe...."- A.C. Higgins, SUNY Albany"For an understanding of modernity with all its diversity, this is a must! It's what's in the news today, about how society adjusts to what is and what should be. This period was when some modern answers were proposed."--R.W. Cliff, Marist College