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David Hume, Adam Smith, James Clerk Maxwell, Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, James Watt, Alexander Fleming, Lord Kelvin - the list goes on... For such a
by eigenschwarz 9y ago
David Hume, Adam Smith, James Clerk Maxwell, Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, James Watt, Alexander Fleming, Lord Kelvin - the list goes on... For such a tiny nation Scotland has truly had a remarkable influence on “modernity”.
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- randcraw 9y agoProbably they can thank John Knox's insistence on teaching everyone in Scotland to read for much of the country's competitive advantage in all those things that benefit from literacy.
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- kej 9y agoThere's a decent book that covers exactly this point: https://www.amazon.com/How-Scots-Invented-Modern-World/dp/0609809997/ https://www.amazon.com/How-Scots-Invented-Modern-World/dp/06...
- markdog12 9y agoGreat book, highly recommend. Before this book, I had no idea of the prevalence of Scottish enlightenment. Incredible contribution to the modern world, especially per capita.
- Nomentatus 9y agoScotland had very high literacy rates, even hundreds of years before this time (as did much of Germany.)