I believe what Joseph Priestley was trying to get at when stating science is something to be concerned about for…
Joseph Priestley stated, “The English hierarchy (if there be anything unsound in its constitution) has equal reason to tremble at…
When people started drinking coffee and tea, instead of beer in the morning, many more things were accomplished throughout the…
Fear of the unknown. Otherwise known as an unwillingness to undergo change. Why should governments and religions fear the inventions…
Religions have reason to fear things like air pumps and electricity not for the science behind them, but for the…
Governments should fear air pumps and electrical machines because with new inventions governments can be challenged or even toppled. This…
Many scientific inventions can change society in different ways, big and small. Governments and religions should be cautious of air…
Fear is unequivocally tied with any type of scientific progress; people who are subject to change often times can not…
Within Johnson’s book and Priestly’s life, governments and religions had reason to fear things such as air pumps and electrical…
Governments and religions do not need to fear air pumps and electrical machines. Governments and religions have to fear what…
HSTR 207 – Science and Technology in World History Mary Hill Young 10/1/18 What a government has to…
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In Observations on Air, written in 1774, Joseph Priestly relates the effects of a surge of knowledge on religion to…
Joseph Priestly states at the beginning of Steven Johnson’s book The Invention of Air that the English hierarchy should fear…
Governments and religions have reason to fear air pumps and electrical machines because of what those machines represent. As science…
Governments are put together and run on the basis of ideas that have been used in the past. They operate…
Governments and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines because of the potential for new revolutions in industry and…
Johnson’s response to Priestly’s statement “The English hierarchy (if there be anything unsound in its constitution) has equal reason to…
Governments and religions should fear the Air pump and electrical machines because they go against the mass beliefs of what…
In Johnson’s book The Invention of Air, Johnson explains that Priestley’s introduction to Observations on Air made bold claims in…
While governments have no real reason to fear air pumps, electrical machines, or steam engines because of their inherent qualities,…
Air pumps and electrical machines represent scientific innovation and progress. Innovation wasn’t always a good thing, it meant discounting the…
Steven speaks about how governments fear the air pump and the electrical machines. It’s not that they fear specially those…
Governments and religions do not need to fear air pumps and electrical machines themselves, they need to fear the new…
Johnson was one of the great thinkers, a man capable of seeing the bigger picture, the pieces (politics, religion, science)…
In the epiparagraph prompting this blog, Priestly asserts that the mightiest of empires should fear even the smallest inventions. As…
Throughout The Invention of Air, author Steven Johnson outlines some of the many important revelations during the study of oxygen,…
In Johnson’s Invention of Air, there is the idea discussed that air pumps and electrical machines should produce fear in…
Holding an ever-important presence in the everyday life of the working-class citizens in the late 1700’s, the Church and country’s…
In Joseph Priestley’s progressive writings, it is noted that the English hierarchy, both the religious and political aspects, should be…
Governments and religions should not fear air pumps and electrical machines themselves, but rather what they symbolize: the forward march…
Governments and religions should be afraid of air pumps and electrical machines because they mean scientific progress. Scientific progress will…
For Johnson, these two groups were the vital pillar of the English country. Therefore, if they were reduced or they…
Scientific discoveries and technologies such as the air pump and electrical machines have radical implications for politics and religion. Scientific…
According to Steven Johnson’s The Invention of Air, governments and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines due to…
As Steve Johnson quoted, scientist Joseph Priestley, in the Invention of Air, “The English hierarchy if there be anything unsound…
In Johnson’s work titled, The Invention of Air, he discusses how technology and science threaten the current order of both…
1) According to Steven Johnson, governments or religions fear air pumps and electrical machines because governments and religions should fear…
Priestly’s quote about the governments fearing the “air pump, or an electrical machine”, shouldn’t be taken entirely literally. Rather, “unsound”…
Johnson discusses Priestley’s particular knack for challenging the ‘status quo’ not only in religion, but in science, and political philosophy.…
Throughout history of science there has probably has been very few inventions as important as the air pump. It can…
Governments should fear the invention of inventions such as the air pump and electrical machines because the potential in dependency…
The air pump and electrical machines are objects to be feared because they represent the enlightenment and advancement in collective…
According to Johnson, governments or religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines because “just as Priestley had demystified what…
And with him, came challenge. Challenges of modern beliefs. Modern ways of thinking, interpreting, and understanding. Why should governments or…
Religions, more so than governments, should fear air pumps and electrical machines. Throughout the second part of the book, Johnson…
According to Joseph Priestly, governments and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines because they are signs of a…
Air pumps and electrical machines may seem trivial in the grand scheme of society and government today, but they are…
So what it looks like to me is that the European government feared the air pump and the electrical machines,…
Governments and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines, not necessarily because of the nature of the inventions themselves,…
Priestly was a true renaissance man. He was able to blend science, religion, and politics into a rational series of…
One reason that religions in particular might have to fear air pumps and electrical machines could be a situation in…
Governments and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines because they have the power to keep these institutions in…
Eighteenth and nineteenth century governments and religion should have feared air pumps and electrical machines for several reasons. The most…
When it comes to air, Religion is an important part of. The spirit of the soul was of “mephitic air”…
I the reading and through discussions in class it would seem apparent that governments and religions should fear the air…
The largest revelation of the 18th century was the improvement of the technology available to the average person and by…
Bryce Dawkins Paragraph 1: The church or religions have been a powerful thing for many centuries. Religions and faith have…
Harari describes that science, empire, and capitalism are directly linked through growth and are dependent on one another. Science fuels…
Science, empire, and capitalism obviously manage to coexist as seen in centuries of evidence. Though the three coexist, are they…
In his book, Harari claims that Science, empire, and capitalism are linked because of how one can support the advancement…
Harari links science, empire and capitalism mainly by one thing: money. He spends a great deal of time explaining how…
Harari explains the feedback loop connecting science, empire and capitalism stating “Political and economic institutions provide the resources without which…
The Europeans of the 16th century were smitten with this idea that the world was out there waiting to be…
The link between capitalism, empire, and science is described well in the Harari text. His main description is that these…
The pursuit of man often coincides with greed and power. Humankind has always been a species that wants to become…
One might suspect that science, empire and capitalism are three completely separate entities unrelated to one another. It is difficult…
Science, capitalism, and empire are linked in an endless cycle where one necessitates the others. Should any of these legs…
Science, empire, and capitalism are linked by nature of society, or perhaps by nature of people of the Western ideology…
Harari addresses the multifaceted relationship between science, technology, and fiscal institutions by describing the thing that all of these things…
In Harari’s eyes, there could be no scientific progress without capitalism and imperialism. Science is an inherently unbiased system, all…
According to Harari, science, empire, and capitalism are linked through the simple fact that the three different branches cannot happen…
In Part Four of his book, Harari addresses the Scientific Revolution, specifically the relationship between imperialism, capitalism, and science, and…
Harari claims that science, empire and capitalism are linked because of the want or need for humans to explore and…
According to Harari, these three elements are connected. Capitalism refers to an empire or a society that is, somehow, associated…
According to Harari, “Science needs . . . the mutual reinforcement of politics and economics” (pg 250). When he says…
According to Harari, empires essentially didn’t exist until the scientific revolution. Before the scientific revolution, the closest thing to an…
At the start of the Scientific Revolution, European scientists and conquerors both has the idea that knew knowledge, which in…
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Science can fuel, and be fueled by capitalism. A clear example of this is coal as an energy source. In…
According to Harari, science, empire and capitalism are very closely connected. One great example that he details is the cook…
Harari argues in his book that the key that unlocked our modern society, was the connection between science, capitalism and…
On page 278 of Sapiens, Harari concludes that it is hard to tell the difference between science and empire. He…
1. According to Harari science, empire and capitalism are linked by the unification of humankind. Sapiens were working towards Globalization.…
After a descriptive recap of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific revolutions, Harari now explains arguably the three biggest parts of…
Science is what has brought us to where we are today. But it doesn’t progress by itself. It relies on…
Growth made during the past 500 years has been driven by the “loop between science, empire, and capital(ism)”, with each…
Science, Empire, and Capitalism, these three constructs all influenced, and continue to influence, one another. As Europeans of the 17th…
Looking at the relationship between science, empire and capitalism described in Harari’s text, it seems to me that he brings…
In Sapiens, Harari argues, “Money has been essential both for building empires and for promoting science” (305). Capitalistic investments are…
According to Harari, about 500 years ago is when humans really started to gain “unprecedented power”, mainly caused by something…
Reading about Harari’s ideas of how science, empire and capitalism have been closely linked through history has been really interesting…
Is death really a technical problem? Harari states that science is only happening if there is a ‘mutual reinforcement’ of…
Harari writes on the fundamental linking of science, empire, and capitalism that has fueled the past 500 years of human…
Similar to science and all facets of society, science, empire and capitalism, are strongly interconnected and in a constant relationship…
Harari effectively links science, empire, and capitalism through one basic diagram: a self-looping graph that moves from Power to Resources…
According to Harari, money—which grows stupendously through capitalism—is “essential both for building empires and for promoting science” (Harari, p. 305).…
The first example that comes to mind of how scientific discovery was shaped by political and fiscal interests is the…
The link between science, empire and capitalism are obvious in many ways. After all, according to Harari, “We are living…
HSTR 207 – Science and Technology in World History Mary Hill Young 9/24/18 Harari links the areas of…
According to Harari, there is an essential link between Capitalism, empire, and science. Harari contrasts the societies of east…
The best way to summarize the relationship between capitalism, empire and science is through Harari’s own words. Namely, capitalism and…
Maxwell Alvord September 23, 2018 With imperialism at the top of everyones mind it is not hard to find times…
Science, empire, and capitalism are all linked because it is basically impossible to fund science without some sort of capitalism,…
As a core class last year, I took an architecture class that I hated. The only information I retained other…
Harari claims that science, empire and capitalism are linked. He argues that capitalism has been vital for building both empires…
According to Harari, the link between science, empire, and capitalism boils down to one main focus: progress. This progress comes…
People always wonder how modern society in Europe got so far ahead of everyone else. According to Harari’s answer it’s…
The advancement of science and economics beginning in the 16th century was not originally for the betterment of humanity or…
It seems to me that the crux of Harari’s argument is that all these things are connected because the people…
In part 4 of Harari’s text, Sapiens, he describes how science, empire, and capitalism are linked together in the scientific…
In Harari’s view, there is a strong link between science, empire and capitalism, which is bound in a sort of…
According to Harari, science and empire are linked in a circular cycle. Increases in science understanding lead to growth of…
Science, empire, and capitalism all worked together to promote each other in 18th and 19th Europe. Previously, Europe had no…
Harari believes that science, capitalism, and empire together create a cycle of effect. He believes going out to find new…
Science, empire, and capitalism are linked through research, or “mutual reinforcement” (Harari, pg. 250). As one of the three concepts…
Before the scientific revolution much of knowledge that was not known was considered unimportant if it was not recorded in…
Science, empire and Capitalism are all closely linked together because they all work together to progress and better the empire.…
Harari notes that European conquest was different in that they “set out to distant shores in the hope of obtaining…
As the chapters carry on the author narrows in on how exactly science, empire, and capitalism are tied together. A…
“The feedback loop between Science, Empire, and Capital has arguably been history’s chief engine for the past 500 years.” (pg.…
It was quite simple for the early humans, if you were technologically more advanced than your enemies, you would do…
One of the most important parts to a successful empire is scientific advancement, and what better way to allow for…
Science, empire and capitalism are linked according to Harari. The link between science, empire and capitalism has only recently happened…
When you ask most people when humanity really became what we are today, many will tell you that it was…
In Harari’s text Sapiens he outlines how without empire and the spread of capitalism, science, would have never flourished into what it…
Throughout the reading Harari talks about how capitalism, empire and science are linked. He asks “What potential did Europe develop…
Science, empire and capitalism are all linked in a number of ways. But the two biggest connections are growth and…
Science is not only a tool of knowledge, but one of significant political importance. Empires provided a perfect foundation for…
The link between science, empire, and capitalism is that they all benefit from one another. In the book, Harari notes…
According to Harari, science, empire and capitalism are linked because science and empires were motivated by the feeling that something…
It all begins with a single thought. What if? What if this sound had this meaning? What if this did…
Science is powerful and ever changing. It’s also funded by the government. Since the government controls science and the funding…
Let’s just get this out of the way… I love capitalism, and it works. I also love this country, and…
Science Empire and Capitalism are all necessary for the development of society. Science gives us a better understanding on who…
Harari posits that capitalism and the desire for wealth drives a lot of innovation, often because those innovations are made…
Science has played one of the most pivotal roles in any expansion in almost every empire that has ever existed.…
Science, capitalism, and empire are all linked by politics. If the majority of people think that something isn’t worth studying…
According to Harari the enterprises of empire, science, and economy, are inherently linked and are what has allowed the rise…
Early empires like the Romans, conquered lands not for knowledge or to study foreign lands, but to become more powerful…
Science, Empire, and Capitalism has been the quarter horses of the values of humanity. The men behind the more…
Harari states that there is quite a significant link between science, empire and capitalism, significant that the technology in science…
Much of the reason for the exponential growth we see in the 20th and 21st centuries is because, for much…
“The feedback loop between science, empire, and capital has arguably been history’s chief engine for the past 500 years” (p…
Harari believes that, as with many other phenomena that have shaped our world, science, empire, and capitalism are linked in…
Scientific discovery is a very interesting topic and Harari, talks about in great detail. It is and likely will always…
According to Harari, Europe was the first country to really open their eyes to the world around them and accept…
According to Harari, science, empire and capitalism are linked through one common goal. This goal can change, whether it’s to…
According to harari we are looking at the relationship between science, empire, and capitalism. He starts off by talking about…
There is one idea that links science, empire, and capitalism together, and that idea is progress. Progress can be thought…
They are all linked because they are bias. All of them are in one way or another implicated by humans.…