Even in 1400 CE a neutral observer who looked around in the world would not have guessed that European culture would within a few centuries become leading. Such an observer would have identified Chinese culture and Islamic culture as in many ways superior. And if he would have been willing to bet, that is where he would have put his money, not on Europe. Yet, the West was about to wake up.
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Koetsier, T. (2019). The middle ages. In History of Mechanism and Machine Science (Vol. 36, pp. 111–143). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96547-5_6
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