Tag Archive for: Scientific
Camp Invention sparks scientific creativity
Camp Invention sparks scientific creativity Chillicothe reading teacher Ms. Suwannasing expresses how the kids “knocked her socks off” with their knowledge of famous inventors throughout history before her “Stick To It” module began. “While state …
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Reading: Robert Allen (2011): Why the Industrial Revolution Was British: Commerce, Induced Invention and the Scientific Revolution
What are the other places that Allen has in mind (since Hiero of Alexandria’s aeropile in which building a first generation “steam engine” would have been possible as a marvel? Weren’t there other roads to industrialization that involved technological …
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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton review – a big bang moment
The birth of science in Europe was the greatest revolution of all, argues this dazzling polemic What is modernity and when did it begin? The answer depends a lot on the nationality and specialism of the historian you ask. Italians favour the achievements …
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