The Principia Hit With Such an Incredible Impact

English sailors made, I'll read you another short quote. English sailors measured tides all over the world from England to the West Indies to the South China Sea. And traders upholding the power of the crown across oceans learned mathematics and developed precision tools to measure the motions of stars and planets. This wasn't just science; this was technology. Instrument makers began to establish the crucial idea of standards that would enable observers anywhere to trust one another's results.