Invention of the Modern World (6): Universities and Science
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| Description: | The nature of universities and the search for reliable knowledge in England |
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| Created: | 2011-06-06 13:14 |
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| Collection: | Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | Invention; Modern; World; |
| Abstract: | The unusual wealth and especially the rapid growth in the eighteenth century in both agricultural and industrial output depended considerably on the application of 'reliable knowledge' or science to practical matters such as wind and water power generation, steam engines and other machines, the rationalization of agriculture through fertilizers and breeding of superior animals. So the growth of knowledge and techniques, and especially the institutions of knowledge including universities and elsewhere was important, and was part of the triangle of ‘knowledge: technology: mass production: back to knowledge’ which lies behind modern growth.
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