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the argument that Puritan values together with economic and military needs encouraged the growth of experimental science in seventeenth-century England.

In history of science, Merton thesis refers to the argument that Puritan values together with economic and military needs encouraged the growth of experimental science in seventeenth-century England. This meaning comes from Merton (1938) in Osiris.[1]

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  1. Merton, R. K. (1938). Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England. Osiris, 4, 360-632. https://doi.org/10.1086/368484

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