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基本説明
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.
Full 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.
Contents
Introduction
I. Intellectual Foundations
1: The New Science and its New Audience
2: The Cultural Meaning of Cartesianism: From the Self to Nature (and Back to the State)
3: Science in the Crucible of the English Revolution
4: The Newtonian Enlightenment
II. Cultural and Social Foundations
5: The Cultural Origins of the First Industrial Revolution
6: The Watts, Entrepreneurs
7: Scientific Education and Industrialization in Continental Europe
8: French Industry and Engineers under Absolutism and Revolution
9: How Science Worked in Industrial Moments: Case Studies from Britain
Notes
Bibliography
Index
