300 , 000 years ago, the first inhabitants of Galicia were hunters and gatherers, and their rudimentary
tools included flint stones obtained from the surface of the earth, which they worked into rough tools.
Later, in the Neolithic period, humans made better use of mining resources and managed to polish
stone, mould clay vessels and sculpt small idols. Gigantic granite dolmens and 'mámoas' were built at
this time. Mining, together with animal husbandry and agriculture, allowed the development of the first
civilised societies.
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and when the Great Plague ravaged Europe, these men (so the story goes)
set out to banish from their meetings all discussion of religion and politics.
But in reality the lynchpin of this "concentrator of knowledge" was the
alchemist Sir Isaac Newton (^) [ 59 ] (president of the society from 1703 to
1727 ) a mathematician and physicist who asserted the society's dominant
role in science in Britain and beyond.
Appropriating that the first Industrial Revolution (^) [ 14 ] originated in
England because of the "royal society", it is also important to remember
the following factors, being one of the countries with the greatest
availability of essential raw materials, especially coal, indispensable for
fuelling the steam engine, as well as for using coke in the blast furnaces of
the iron and steel works. The English Civil Wars ( 1642 - 1651 ) (^) [ 60 ] and the