Abstract This article aims to revisit the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in order to establish a new interpretation of the constitution of what we call science in its relationship with what we call nature. This interpretation provides a better understanding of scientific developments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly the emergence in the mid-nineteenth century of the consubstantial link between economics and science, established through the invention of the modern concept of work. This is how what I call the “order of technology” was constructed and found its fulfillment in the industrialism that reigns today.
Michel Blay (Sat,) studied this question.