Why Europe's cultural renaissance is linked to the first industrial revolution in Britain

An important factor in the First Industrial Revolution was the development and use of a range of products, such as the steam engine, which could not be put into use without breakthroughs in science and technology and innovations in scientific theory.

But in the Middle Ages before the Renaissance, education in Europe was controlled by the Roman Papacy, and all ideas and scientific inventions and discoveries that deviated from the tenets of Christianity were regarded as heretical, such as Bruno's being burned at the stake, and Galileo's being asked by the Pope to drink tea, and so on. The emergence and promotion of the Renaissance, on the other hand, dealt a heavy blow to the dominance of feudal theology in the world of thought, promoted the emergence of the Reformation, and enabled the development of many new ideas in the midst of theological oppression. Therefore, the European Renaissance led the ideological liberation movement for the first industrial revolution provides the ideological foundation.