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In the intro to Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton writes "For four hundred years since Galileo, science has always proceeded as a free and open inquiry into the workings of nature." Were there any scientists during the Enlightenment who explicitly sought commercial applications for their discoveries?

by /u/kaijujube in /r/AskHistorians

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