History of Science

If you've looked at Cliopatria's History Blogroll over the past year, you'll know that it has grown. I now count nearly 275 blogs on the list. It grows by fits and starts, when Jon Dresner or I find additional ones. Often, that means raiding someone else's rich sidebar of like-minded blogs. Last night, I was lurking among the history of science blogs.

History of science is often taught in history departments, but is also often set apart from"History" in a separate program – as"History and Philosophy of Science" or"Science, Technology, and Society". So, too, Jon and I have thought about whether we ought to set up a particular Science and Technology section of the History Blogroll. Doing so would help people of similar interests to find each other more readily. Doing so might not encourage people to stumble on something really interesting that they wouldn't otherwise have seen.

In any case, I wanted to encourage you to have a look at the History of Science blogs, some of which have only recently been added to the History Blogroll. Here's a list of them: [more ...]

Alun Salt of Leicester University blogs at Archaeoastronomy
At the University of Oklahoma, Sylwester Ratowt blogs at Copernicus Sashimi
From Sweden's University of Lund, Gustav Holmburg blogs at Imaginary Magnitude
Michael McNeil blogs at Impearls
Logan Lounge is a group blog of students and former students in the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania
The director of Case Western Reserve's Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education blogs at Mano Singham's Web Journal
Medical Museion Weblog is a bi-lingual Danish/English group blog from Denmark.
Francis Lee at Sweden's Linköping University blogs at Projectories.
Yale's Sage Ross blogs at Ragesoss 2.02
Stanford's Alex Soojung-Kim Pang blogs at Relevant History
John Lynch at Arizona State blogs at Stranger Fruit
Stanford's John Christensen blogs from The Uneasy Chair and
Sara Dietrich at the University of Minnesota blogs at Whewell Learn

Lists of things often miss something. Depending on how history of science defines its alliances – medicine? philosophy? technology? – there are, of course, other history bloggers with strong interests in the history of science. They include Orac at Respectful Insolence, Paul Newall who blogs at Studi Galileiani, Brandon Watson of the University of Toronto who blogs at Siris, and Cliopatria's Rob MacDougall of the University of Western Ontario who blogs at Roblog or, as he prefers to call it, Old is the New New. If there are other history of science bloggers out there, let us know in comments and we'll add them to the list.