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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An out of this world Year in Review item:
One day, the Emperor sentenced a man to be beheaded, and the man was executed immediately. However, it was not entirely clear that this was an act of justice or an act of anger. The historian recorded the event:
There is a story written in ancient Chinese documents that goes something like this:
Over at Framing Science, Matt notes that the WaPo is running a series of pieces by historians putting Bush's presidency in historical context.
I recently co-authored a paper that discussed the utility of history of science for science (Isis 99: 322-330). The abstract reads:
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
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.
Will is a post-doc, by the way.
Oh and your link to me doesn't go to the post: http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2008/08/the_big_list_of_history_o…
Everyone's a critic! Fixed...