
Three Faces of Derek de Solla Price
This post is cross-posted from the Connecting with Collections blog. I recently read a fascinating article about the early years of the discipline of history of science in Cambridge. It was helpful to me in lots of ways but one idea the author, Anna-K Mayer, had was to examine various photographs of the key figures in that story – famous historians and scientists like Herbert Butterfield and Joseph Needham. These men were public figures, and they took care over how they