UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1994 · Q6 · 60 marks
To what extent were the advances in scientific knowledge in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a product of the needs of a changing society?
- Chapter
- Industrialization
- Topic
- Agricultural Revolution and Science
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