NATS 1840 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Crop Rotation, Scientific Revolution, International Trade
22 Feb 2019
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Nats 1840 lecture 5 commerce and science in the scientific. Scientific revolution, 16th and 17th centuries, renaissance and. Economic and political conditions, medieval feudalism and. Renaissance capitalism: medieval agricultural revolution (ploughs and horses, crop rotation, fertilizing), crop output and population, capitalism and feudalism, land based economy, goods based economy. Conceptual changes that marked the scientific revolution. Shift from a geocentric cosmology to a heliocentric cosmology. Size of universe, terrestrial and celestial physics. Economic concerns, navigation, international trade and astronomy. Economics and science, impact of trade and commerce on knowledge. Scientific revolution occurred during the first age of global commerce . Medicine and the life sciences, folk traditions of local knowledge. Head and the hand reunited in the renaissance. Knowledge from tradesmen and common people, not just scholars. Reports/specimens from travelers: sailors, tourists, doctors, merchants, diplomats. European middle class, dominant personal, intellectual and economic interests. Global trade in foreign spices, tobacco, chocolate, coffee and tea.
