Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West [Hardcover]

Introduction
I. Intellectual Foundations
1. The New Science and its New Audience
2. The Cultural Meaning of Cartesianism: From the Self to Nature (and Back to the State)
3. Science in the Crucible of the English Revolution
4. The Newtonian Enlightenment
II. Cultural and Social Foundations
5. The Cultural Origins of the First Industrial Revolution
6. The Watts, Entrepreneurs
7. Scientific Education and Industrialization in Continental Europe
8. French Industry and Engineers under Absolutism and Revolution
9. How Science Worked in Industrial Moments: Case Studies from Britain
Notes
Bibliography
Index