Editorial: Science in a Changing World
β Scribed by Prof. Gautam R. Desiraju
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 193 KB
- Volume
- 123
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-8249
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β¦ Synopsis
Excellence in science and technology is surely vital to global economic and political influence. Most countries now understand and accept that science furthers technological progress at home and their nations prestige abroad. With the growth of hypothesis-driven science in the centuries following the Renaissance, Europe quite simply came to dominate the world during the Industrial Revolution. Conversely India and China, amongst the richest nations in the world till the 18th century, became nearly the poorest, because they failed to recognize the importance of the scientific approach.
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