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The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions

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Few events have transformed the modern world as much as Europe’s Scientific1 and Industrial Revolutions.

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  1. See H. Butterfield, The Origins of Modern Science, New York, 1962.

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  2. The Greek astronomer Aristarchus had put forward a sun-centred theory in the third century BC, but the time was not ripe and his ideas were rejected. See Hans Blumenberg, trans. by Robert Wallace, The Genesis of the Copernican World, Cambridge, Mass., 1987.

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  3. Arnold Toynbee, who popularized the term, dates the Industrial Revolution to the reign of George III (1760–1820). See P. Mathias, The First Industrial Nation, An Economic History of Britain, 1700–1914, 2nd edn., New York, 1983; also E.A. Wrigley, Continuity, Chance, and Change: the Character of the Industrial Revolution, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988.

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  4. See C. Treblicock, The Industrialization of the Continental Powers, 1780–1914, London, 1981.

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  5. See Rupert Sheldrake, A New Science of Life, London, 1981, and The Presence of the Past, New York, 1988. See also John Maddox, ‘A Book for Burning’, Nature, 1981.

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Woodruff, W. (2002). The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions. In: A Concise History of the Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554665_10

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