[PDF.75qf] Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851 (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851 (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

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 | #4616864 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2005-01-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.25 x.63 x5.50l,.92 | File type: PDF | 216 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Concise and Insightful|By R. Albin|Continuing prior arguments made by Jacob, this concise and well written book examines the relationship between Newtonian science and the Industrial Revolution. Jacob and Stewart discuss the major change in intellectual attitudes accompanying Newtonian science, its reception in Britain and the larger European world, its particular educational| |Practical Matter presents a popular argument for strong continuities between the Scientific Revolution and the industrial transformation whose machines and symbols populated the Crystal Palace in 1851.
--David Philip Miller (Historical Studies

Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart examine the profound transformation that began in 1687. From the year when Newton published his Principia to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually became central to Western thought and economic development. The book aims at a general audience and examines how, despite powerful opposition on the Continent, a Newtonian understanding gained acceptance and practical application. By the mid-eighteenth century the ...

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