Sociology of Science 101

There was a sociological history of science and it got it all wrong. The sociologists seemed to think that what mattered was a sociologically informed account of "what happened" It wasn't. What mattered was and is "what was happening", a totally different issue, and one only a scientist could discern. The thread of thought which has brought us the benefits we as a species enjoy over the experiences of our ancestors runs through science from the beginning. It starts well before there was anything called science. What it was called endlessly fascinates the sociologist and is endlessly irrelevant. The sociologists, and those historians affected by the sociological turn, share a compulsion to never come to a conclusion but to write endlessly about the minutiae of individual experience. History of something. But not of science. Quote from Euler Letters to a Princess The three classes of truths which I have now un-folded are the only sources of all our knowledge; all being derived from our own experience, from reasoning, or from the report of others. Letters to a Princess. https://archive.org/details/lettersofeuleron01eule/page/448/mode/2up AKA Personal Experience, Rationale, and Established Public Knowledge.