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Hitherto historians of culture have tended to isolate
technological events much in the way that classical physics
dealt with physical events. Louis de Broglie, describing The
Revolution in Physics , makes much of this limitation of the
Cartesian and Newtonian procedures which are so near those of
the historians using an individual “point of view” (p. 14):
Faithful to the Cartesian ideal, classical physics showed
us the universe as being analogous to an immense
mechanism which was capable of being described with
complete precision by the localization of its parts in space
and by their change in the course of time. . . . But such a
conception rested on several implicit hypotheses which
were admitted almost without our being aware of them.
One of these hypotheses was that the framework of
space and time in which we seek almost instinctively to