Framing is interesting.
Your question is: why wasn’t it in China. (somewhere, lots of reasons, easy to digest and deliberate on)
A more interesting question to me is: why was it. (somewhere, lots of reasons, potentially provable hypothesis)
I think this question is best understood as part of a broader question about how good intellectual processes are developed, of which science is a subset. And of which “why not china?” is a sub-question.
(See the section on clarifying the question)
Framing is interesting.
Your question is: why wasn’t it in China. (somewhere, lots of reasons, easy to digest and deliberate on)
A more interesting question to me is: why was it. (somewhere, lots of reasons, potentially provable hypothesis)
I think this question is best understood as part of a broader question about how good intellectual processes are developed, of which science is a subset. And of which “why not china?” is a sub-question.
(See the section on clarifying the question)