>>> Mark Jones wrote:
Since everybody is now agreed that (a) Newton was actually a loony alchemist and (b) clocks weren't very important to the Ind Revo (c) even if there was a Science Revolution, it made no difference to industrial technology, then it clearly doesn't matter whether or not the Chinese had science, or indeed whether, as Frank argues, Europe was sinified and Indianised in the 18th c.
Mark, is this a joke ? or serious ?
Charles