| Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West Contributor(s): Jacob, Margaret C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195082192 ISBN-13: 9780195082197 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $181.16 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Technology & Engineering | History - Science | History |
| Dewey: 306.450 |
| LCCN: 96026493 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.27 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
