Karel DavidsKarel Davids is Full Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is the author of Global Ocean of Knowledge, 1660-1860 (Bloomsbury, 2020), Religion, Technology and the Great and Littl Divergences: China and Europe Compared, c. 700 - 1800 (2013) and The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership (2008). Read More Read Less