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The Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century
printing by moveable type late in creating community of scientific practice and knowledge seeking. Back before 1870 there's no possibility at all that humanity is going to be being able to bake economic pie sufficiently large so everyone can have enough. Most of the time when you have a kind of powerfully moving forward set of people thinking about ideas, whether the idea is true is likely to be secondary to whether it will help them keep their place. So, I think to be the best understanding of the 17th century scientific revolution. If indeed you view it as the 17th Century revolution.