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Don't forget double-entry bookkeeping on that list. But I think your claim to a direct link is quite strenuous. Both the printing press and the Magna Carta (as
by t_mann 4y ago
Don't forget double-entry bookkeeping on that list. But I think your claim to a direct link is quite strenuous. Both the printing press and the Magna Carta (as well as accounting) had been well established for centuries when the Industrial Revolution happened.
- notahacker 4y agoPerhaps more interesting than the press itself was the rapid increase in literacy believed to have occurred in the century immediately preceding the Industrial Revolution...