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Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West
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CultureHistory Of ScienceMaterial CultureScientific CultureIndustrialisationHistorical TransitionKnowledge ProductionIndustrial RevolutionsIndustrial RevolutionEducationContinental CounterpartsScience And Technology StudiesLanguage StudiesSocial AnthropologyCultural AnthropologyClassicsHistorical ProcessModernity
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.