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1687: Global Revolutions 1687: Global Revolutions
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The Search for New Translation Methods The Search for New Translation Methods
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The Newtonian System The Newtonian System
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Five The System of the World
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Published:January 2014
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Chapter five concludes by analyzing the Asian roots of the Glorious and Newtonian Revolutions in politics and science, what many have seen as ‘the birth of the modern.’ A crisis in the East India Company trade, brought on in part by attempts by Siam, Russia and the Mughals to consolidate their own power, encouraged a search for translatable ideas about sovereignty, science and cosmology. The result of this was the dual Newtonian and Glorious ‘revolutions,’ in which cosmological and absolutist centrality were replaced by an awareness of the limited nature of systemic phenomena and the need for appropriate translation strategies between these. These developments in London, Oxford and Cambridge, gave the Glorious and Newtonian revolutions a global and ‘modern’ character as systems for comprehending the world. The Newtonian and the Glorious revolutions ultimately sealed off the question of causality by relations at a distance as unknowable in favor of more provincial claims to truth, but the dual revolutions were the culmination of efforts over a century and a half to build London into a global city through the creation of practices and institutions for translation, interpretation and measurement.
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