Seminar, four hours. Designed for College Honors students. Examination of most important development in making of Western power and hegemony: rise of new science and its relationship first to British, then European, Industrial Revolution. Once seen as solely product of material factors such as abundant coal, high wages, and available labor, Industrial Revolution is shown as also possessing critically important knowledge of components, one scientific culture derived from Newtonian science and mechanics. P/NP or letter grading.