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. Original. Roll over Galileo. You, too, Bacon, Newton, and Descartes. When it comes to taking credit for creating modern science, you fellows have held the limelight far too long. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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1 WHAT SCIENCE? WHAT HISTORY? WHAT PEOPLE?
1(25)
2 PREHISTORY: WERE HUNTER-GATHERERS STUPID?
26(91)
3 WHAT GREEK MIRACLE?
117(73)
4 BLUE-WATER SAILORS AND THE NAVIGATIONAL SCIENCES
190(58)
5 WHO WERE THE REVOLUTIONARIES IN THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION?
248(101)
6 WHO WERE THE WINNERS IN THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION?
349(73)
7 THE UNION OF CAPITAL AND SCIENCE
422(27)
8 THE SCIENTIFIC-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
449(57)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
506(27)
INDEX
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