Britain had a unique wage and price structure in the eighteenth century, and that structure is a key to explaining the inventions of the industrial revolution. British wages were very high by ...

How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...

Conceptions of the scientific revolution from Bacon to Butterfield : a preliminary sketch / David C. Lindberg -- Conceptions of science in the Scientific Revolution / Ernan McMullin -- Metaphysics and ...