I always think it is great value to have a whole range of history of X courses.
I once thought about a series of PHYS classes that focus on historical ideas and experiments. Students are supposed to replicate the experiments. They have to read book chapters and papers.
History of physics is another history where we have been extremely dependent on the "substrate". Better instruments and capacity to analyze results, obviously, but also advances in mathematics.
I once thought about a series of PHYS classes that focus on historical ideas and experiments. Students are supposed to replicate the experiments. They have to read book chapters and papers.