The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology
Author: Thomas Söderquist
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1135851670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century. So far, however, only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period. Merely a decade ago, most scientific historians considered recent science - the scientific culture created, lived and remembered by contemporary scientists - an area of study best left to the historical actors themselves.