This probably did more to guarantee the eventuality of the Scientific Revolution, than any other factor.
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Once these autonomous structures were in place, it seems, the Scientific Revolution was virtually inevitable.
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Only in one country of Asia was the scientific revolution ordained to play a critical role in national development.
The computer science being put in place to deal with this and similar phenomena forms the technological aspect of the predicted scientific revolution.
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution is an engrossing book and I think a necessary addition to the library of any history of science buff.
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This week, a group of computer scientists claimed that developments in their subject will trigger a scientific revolution of similar proportions in the next 15 years.
Contemporary historians of science have a tendency to deprecate the originality of the so-called scientific revolution, and to stress, instead, its continuities with medieval astrology and alchemy.
Thony Christie of Renaissance Mathematicus recently turned a Blast from the Past toward a much neglected sixteenth century mathematician whose education reforms helped train the pioneers of the Scientific Revolution.
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Shirky believes that we are on the crest of an ever-surging wave of democratized information: the Gutenberg printing press produced the Reformation, which produced the Scientific Revolution, which produced the Enlightenment, which produced the Internet, each move more liberating than the one before.
In order for the mathematisation of nature, that many historians regard as the core of the scientific revolution, to be consummated it became necessary in the 16th and 17th centuries to reform the prevailing education system and introduce a thorough grounding in the mathematical sciences in order to produce the mathematicians, astronomers and physicists capable of carrying out the task.
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That world began when Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1455, and gave birth along the way to the Reformation, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Method, and finally the Industrial Revolution not to mention the modern era of newspapers, universal education and, yes, mass literacy.
The Industrial Revolution happened in Europe with no scientific knowledge beyond what the Greeks, Romans, Chinese and Persians knew in ancient times.
Both traditional hierarchies, or new ones like the Bolsheviks after the 1917 revolution, disdain popular will as intrinsically lacking in scientific judgment and societal wisdom.
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It was a revolution of gadgets, important not because of their scientific merit but because private businesses were now able to put them to use for profit.
Initially, the new paradigm is typically greeted with strong resistance both from the scientific community and even from other powers as in the case of the Copernican revolution.
As I dug deeper into economics textbooks, I began to connect all the dots in other scientific areas, realizing that we were living at the end of the 300-year Industrial Revolution based on fossil fuels and outdated methods of production.
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