A chance link to my blog has led me through an ego search to find Will Thomas' most excellent Ether Wave Propaganda blog. Will is a historian of science post-doc, I think, and he has an engaging style.
Coincidentally, John Lynch lists various links to history of science, including a number of bloggers (your host included). It looks like the beginnings of a Mexican wave of historians.
I recommend Will's post linked to at the start of this post as a discussion of the role and justification for doing history of science.
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Interestingly (to me) I read the title of this post as referring to the History of blogging-about-science rather than blogging about the History of Science. It was not, in fact, until I read the last three words of the post that I realised and went back to re-read the post from the beginning.
I wonder why I read it that way even though I think that History of Science is The Most Awesomest Thing Evar... hmm
Posted by: ephant | August 11, 2008 2:56 AM
ephant - I read it that way too.
If someone were to write a history of science blogging, The Most Awesomest Thing Evar would be the perfect title.
Posted by: Bob O'H | August 11, 2008 3:19 AM
Will is a post-doc, by the way.
Posted by: John Lynch | August 11, 2008 4:06 AM
Oh and your link to me doesn't go to the post: http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2008/08/the_big_list_of_history_of_sci.php
Posted by: John Lynch | August 11, 2008 4:08 AM
Everyone's a critic! Fixed...
Posted by: John S. Wilkins | August 11, 2008 4:34 AM