Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851 by Margaret C. Jacob, Larry Stewart

Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851

Margaret C. Jacob, Larry Stewart

201 pages • first pub 2005 (view editions)

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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 d...

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