A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks

by Clifford D. Conner

Book Overview

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. 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. These few tower...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560257482
• ISBN13: 9781560257486
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Bold Type Books
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"