A Peoples History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Conner Clifford D.Paperback
A Peoples History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Conner Clifford D.Paperback We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his…
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A Peoples History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Conner Clifford D.Paperback
We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation. These few tower over the ordinary mass of people, and in the traditional account, it is to them that we owe science in its entirety. This history is made up of long periods of ignorance and confusion, punctuated once an age by a brilliant thinker who puts it all together.
A People's History of Science shows how ordinary people participate in creating science and have done so throughout history. This belief is wrong. It documents how the development of science has affected ordinary people, and how ordinary people perceived that development.
It would be wrong to claim that the formulation of
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