With each passing year, the technology necessary for this revolution in medicine is growing less expensive.

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New technologies were a necessary condition for the green revolution, but not a sufficient one.

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In order for the mathematisation of nature, that many historians regard as the core of the scientific revolution, to be consummated it became necessary in the 16th and 17th centuries to reform the prevailing education system and introduce a thorough grounding in the mathematical sciences in order to produce the mathematicians, astronomers and physicists capable of carrying out the task.

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