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A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks." Clifford D. Conner. 2005. Nation Books, New York. 554 pp. $17.95. ISBN 1-56025-7482 (paper).
In grade school and beyond we were taught that the history of science is primarily the triumph of famous men. Galileo showed that the earth is not the center of the universe; Newton "discovered" gravity; Darwin convinced most of his peers that plant and animal species including the human species, are not immutable; Einstein's theory of...