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
over the ordinary mass of people, and in the traditional account,
it is to them that we owe science in its entirety. This belief is
wrong. A People's History of Science shows how ordinary people
participate in creating science and have done so throughout
history. It documents how the development of science has affected
ordinary people, and how ordinary people perceived that
development. It would be wrong to claim that the formulation of
quantum theory or the structure of DNA can be credited directly to
artisans or peasants, but if modern science is likened to a
skyscraper, then those twentieth-century triumphs are the
sophisticated filigrees at its pinnacle that are supported by the
massive foundation created by the rest of us.
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