He has an agreeably caustic and aggressive approach to outdated and erroneous ideas about the history of science. The book is a polemical essay, rather than a history, and welcome as such.
Business practice: The rise of American astrophysics, 1859-1919 Nisbett, Catherine Elaine. This dissertation takes seriously the production of astrophysical data by examining observatory practices through the lens of business models.
Historians, sociologists, philosophers and sometimes scientists themselves have begun to ask fundamental questions about how the institution of science is structured and how it knows what it knows. David Cayley talks to some of the leading lights of this