A people's history of science : miners, midwives, and "low mechanicks" / Clifford D. Conner.
2005
Q125 .C66 2005
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Title
A people's history of science : miners, midwives, and "low mechanicks" / Clifford D. Conner.
Author
ISBN
1560257482 :
9781560257486
9781560257486
Imprint
New York : Nation Books, 2005.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 554 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
Q125 .C66 2005
System Control No.
(OCoLC)62164511
Summary
Challenges popular beliefs that credit such figures as Galileo, Newton, and Einstein with bringing about modern science, explaining how everyday laborers participated in creating science and continue to do so today, in an account that also documents how the development of science affects ordinary people.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
What science? What history? What people?
Prehistory: were hunter-gatherers stupid?
What "Greek miracle"?
Blue-water sailors and the navigational sciences
Who were the revolutionaries in the scientific revolution?
Who were the winners in the scientific revolution?
The "union of capital and science"
The scientific-industrial complex.
Prehistory: were hunter-gatherers stupid?
What "Greek miracle"?
Blue-water sailors and the navigational sciences
Who were the revolutionaries in the scientific revolution?
Who were the winners in the scientific revolution?
The "union of capital and science"
The scientific-industrial complex.
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