VISMAYA: History & Philosophy of Physics


Why study history?

Recently, I came across a short but interesting book:

Bailyn, Bernard. On the Teaching and Writing of History: Responses to a Series of Questions. UPNE, 1994.

On page 12, there is an interesting discussion on why one should study history, both at the level of an individual and the collective. Below, I reproduce a paragraph related to this.

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