NP 'Lost Discoveries': The Non-Western Roots of Science

[Monte Davis]

> if most of the scientific discoveries of The
West were made elsewhere long before, what explains
The West's apparent hegemony beginning around the 16th
century?

Science =/ technology. Europe was also coming up with long-distance trade
arrangements, joint stock companies, patents, literacy sufficiently diffused
to support Royal Societies, etc. etc. etc... a host of social and economic
"enablers" that encouraged people to puruse and apply science more
systematically and on far larger scales.