"Scientists found the thickly contextualised, sharply focused histories of now-discarded science irrelevant and indigestible. Historians bridled at the scientists’ demands for a mythologised and anachronistic version of the past. We think it’s time to restart the conversation, for the benefit of both scientists and historians."

https://aeon.co/essays/science-and-history-cannot-afford-to-be-indifferent-to-each-other