Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of
discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the
Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo s discoveries into
a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to
China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, those civilizations
did not respond as Europeans did to the new instrument. In Europe,
there was an extraordinary burst of innovations in microscopy,
human anatomy, optics, pneumatics, electrical studies, and the
science of mechanics. Nearly all of those aided the emergence of
Newton s revolutionary grand synthesis, which unified terrestrial
and celestial physics under the law of universal gravitation. That
achievement had immense implications for all aspects of modern
science, technology, and economic development. The economic
implications are set out in the concluding epilogue. All these
unique developments suggest why the West experienced a singular
scientific and economic ascendancy of at least four centuries.
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