... library as early as the first half of the fifteenth century, but such institutions became common only during the nineteenth century. The single most important contribution of western science is that it linked science and technology by way of the scientific method, requiring systematic experimentation. Technology until the industrial revolution was largely the result of craftsmen developing ... their own technologies within their own fields of endeavor. Scientists, required to test their theories in the real world, became linked to that world. As a result, technology and science became li...

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