NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Second Industrial Revolution, Technoscience, Steelmaking
25 Nov 2017
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The second industrial revolution general overview: major centers: germany and united states, who themselves were trying to catch up to british lead in industrialization, major turning point for understanding the relationship between science and. Techno-science based industries (see next sections: example, electricity - field of science. Recapping the relationship between science and technology (before 2nd industrial. Natural philosophy and technical arts throughout most of history were done by different sets of people. Intellectuals versus artisans - goals for each group were different. Natural philosophers wanted to discuss natural phenomena for theological or philosophical purposes, while artisans wanted to create practical and useful artifacts. Sungook hong: experiments in science, social spaces and idea of hybrid humans. Rise in experimental method means greater use of instruments in experiments. Prior to scientific revolution, experiments shunned aristotle claimed that experimentation would not reveal true picture of nature and discouraged this practice.
