Roger Smith is emeritus reader in the history of science at Lancaster University.

Confirms Smith's truly remarkable breadth of knowledge, power of synthesis, and ability to use different historiographical and stylistic registers to convey a message that matters to many of us. Here is a historian who has shown that 'history' itself does, indeed, matter.

Roger Smith is emeritus reader in the history of science at Lancaster University.

Confirms Smith's truly remarkable breadth of knowledge, power of synthesis, and ability to use different historiographical and stylistic registers to convey a message that matters to many of us. Here is a historian who has shown that 'history' itself does, indeed, matter.

Roger Smith is emeritus reader in the history of science at Lancaster University.

Confirms Smith's truly remarkable breadth of knowledge, power of synthesis, and ability to use different historiographical and stylistic registers to convey a message that matters to many of us. Here is a historian who has shown that 'history' itself does, indeed, matter.