Bibliograph

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A people's history of science

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

62164511

Responsibility statement

Clifford D. Conner

Sub title

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

Table Of Contents

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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