If I could attach bells and whistles and flashing lights to this review I would do so because McClellan and Dorn's book deserves to be brought to the attention of all professional historians―and indeed the general reading public―by any means necessary.

(Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire)

This historical account achieves its basic aim of demonstrating that, with the exception of quite recent history, technology has always influenced science, not the other way round.

(Nature)