A brief history…

The history of science writing is CLASSIC! (or Classical, to be exact)

• Ancient Greece: Aristotle, Plato, observational and logical thinking (Art of Rhetoric describes the process of deductive thinking and persuasive argument)
• Ancient Babylonia & Egypt: numerical systems and mathematics
• Science comes from the Latin, scientia, meaning simply “knowledge”
• Ancient sciences revolved around the natural world
• Natural Philosophy

The history of science writing is connected to technology…

• Gutenberg
• Renaissance & Scientific Revolution of the 17th century
• Natural Philosophy and Natural Philosophers
• Royal Society of London, Philosophical Transactions (Boyle, Newton, Hooke, Halley and van Leeuwenhoek)
• Micrographia, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Optiks 
• microscope, telescope, electricity, steam power, locomotion,

Resources

Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
National Association of Science Writers
Phenomena: A Science Writer’s Salon, National Geographic Magazine