>For this thesis, you need to show that movable type in specific, rather than printing in general, was necessary and sufficient for the scientific revolution.

>For this thesis, you need to show that movable type in specific, rather than printing in general, was necessary and sufficient for the scientific revolution. I would say that movable type was necessary but not sufficient. Are you saying that if all the other conditions had been in place, we could have had the scientific revolution (which China most definitely did not have) with block printing?