This book surveys the history of technology and science over four centuries. It begins with the opening of the modern historical epoch around 1500 and ends with the outbreak of World War I in 1914.One goal of the study is to weave various historiographical threads -- separate or only partly woven until now -- into one fabric. The history of technology, the history of science, and the history of economic development leading to the Industrial Revolution have developed to a very great degree as three histories. For decades ...
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This book surveys the history of technology and science over four centuries. It begins with the opening of the modern historical epoch around 1500 and ends with the outbreak of World War I in 1914.One goal of the study is to weave various historiographical threads -- separate or only partly woven until now -- into one fabric. The history of technology, the history of science, and the history of economic development leading to the Industrial Revolution have developed to a very great degree as three histories. For decades historians of science and technology agreed with one another that until the 1900s there was little causative interaction between the subjects they studied. Economists treated science and technology as residual factors that were important only to the extent that they could be measured.
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