It is not easy for scientists and engineers, accustomed to texts filled with symbols and formulas and physical work in the laboratory, to approach the humanities, which are centered on text.
What serves as a bridge for them to move back and forth between the humanities and sciences is the history of science and technology, which attempts to view science and technology through the humanities framework of history.
Subtitled "Essays on the History of Scientific Thought," this book illuminates the development of Western science through the activities of unique individuals within the trends of each era.