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History of Science degree...? sounds interesting

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Semidevil

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so my school is one of the few schools in the U.S that offers a degree on history of science. It sounds neat because it is one of those 'rare' degrees just because not a lot of schools have it. If you had a choice to get a minor in it, would you? I mean, would it have any usefulness in the real world when your major is not history related?
 
probably an awesome set of knowledge... mostly useless.

As a teacher, I always try to incorporate some history from math and science (I teach math and physics)

But, to get a degree in it... I'm not sure you'd find a job. Maybe you would in a similar field - science editor for a magazine or something...

For Christmas, my wishlist includes 4 book titles related to the history of mathematics.
(I'm pretty sure my wife will get me all 4, especially since I told her to buy used ones if she bought any at all - I"m not picky - I'd rather have 10 used books than 1 new book)

 
`I took a history of science course at Cal and it was honestly the best class I've ever taken. Basically, its history, and you'd be a historian. It probably wouldn't be useful unless you got a PhD and decided to teach at a higher academic level. With those qualifications, you could probably teach anthropology, classics, european history at a community college level too.
 
On a side note... an awesome book on this topic is On the Shoulders of Giants, by Stephen Hawking. There is an illustrated version, that is 1/5 the size, and there is the huge thick edition. I have the big one. It goes through and shows a lot of the original formulas and drawings by the world's greatest scientists, and their original papers. (Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Kepler)
 
I attended a series of lectures at Cambridge University on the history of science and they were some of the best and most fascinating lectures I have ever had the privalege to enjoy.

It would be the most useless degree in the history of useless degrees though...
 
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