Were Europeans outside of the belt from Britain down to Switzerland contributing strongly to scientific progress before 1750?
From 1300-1800 most European countries made no agricultural progress whatsoever, even as their scientists were leaving the rest of the world in the dust. The exceptions to the rule were England and the Netherlands, who by 1750 were outproducing German farmers by a factor of 3pic.twitter.com/h4T0rtxL5S
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The industrial revolution happened in England for a reason.
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How much of this is the little ice age?
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Something else is going on. Hard to think that Belgium was sliding backwards in agri technology for 500 years. Especially since their neighbor Netherlands is doing well. Is output measured in a currency or good that favours GB?
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Agricultural productivity per worker can decline without tech going backward if population increases and land per worker declines. The British expansion in productivity is well established, much of it of Dutch originhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolution …
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I remember reading something like that in Wages of Destruction; despite being so technically skilled, Germany's agriculture was still "backwards" in the 1930s in some ways.
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We still are outproducing the world, only now the governments is destroying the ag sector for feel good shit.
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