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Will historiographers of science need scientific expertise?
If so, how do we offer them a path to that expertise?
[Their] diminishing knowledge of science ... prevents, or seriously hinders, historians of science from writing about the content of modern sciences such as physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, medicine, and others. That task must be left to those scientists who have a desire to present the modern history of their subject to modern readers. The simple fact is that fewer and fewer historians of science have the requisite scientific knowledge to study historical texts that are technically scientific.
-Edward Grant, "Troglodyte Historian of Science" in Osiris v27, 2012.
Grant may be a bit hyperbolic, but should there not be some scholars crossing between physics and history to make sure to serve each field's interest in the other to the utmost?
