A People's History of Science
Subtitle: Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks" (Nation Books)
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: October 18, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781560257486
Subjects: Science; Science/Mathematics; History; Science / History
First sentence: 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.