"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
