Making Science History - by Arnold Thackray (Hardcover)

Review Quotes

"How did the contemporary techno- and medical sciences become crucial subjects for historians of modernity? Arnold Thackray's Making Science History is an original answer, presented in a clear and vivid prose style, by a scholar and entrepreneur who had a knack for being where the historical action is. His eyewitness stories of the varied people who conceived of scientific modernity are both insightful and entertaining. You don't have to be a professional historian to love this book: it's a really good read."--Robert Kohler, Professor Emeritus, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

About the Author

Arnold Thackray's many roles in the public life of scholarship include founding and building both the Science History Institute and the University of Pennsylvania's Department of History and Sociology of Science. Earlier, he was central to the creation of what would become the Churchill Archives Centre (the largest repository of Winston Churchill's papers) at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. He also served as treasurer of the American Council of Learned Societies for over a decade. Thackray has written, edited, or published some two dozen books on the modern technosciences, from Atoms and Powers: An Essay on Newtonian Matter-Theory and the Development of Chemistry (1970) to Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary (2015).