Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195082197)

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.

Author: Margaret C. Jacob
ISBN-10: 0195082192
ISBN-13: 9780195082197
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 01/02/1997
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d