A people's history of science, miners, midwives, and "low mechanicks", Clifford D. Conner
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A people's history of science, miners, midwives, and "low mechanicks", Clifford D. Conner
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
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A people's history of science
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bibliography
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62164511
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Clifford D. Conner
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miners, midwives, and "low mechanicks"
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
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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
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