Anything by P J Bowler is worth a look. He and Morus wrote the first "textbook" on history of science. "Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey" - disclaimer

Anything by P J Bowler is worth a look. He and Morus wrote the first "textbook" on history of science. "Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey" - disclaimer I was their student when they were writing this. Full bibliography here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Bowler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Bowler Iwan Rhys Morus also has some good books on Faraday/Tesla and his own illustrated history of science and way back to his "Bodies/Machines" from 2002. They take a general view that is cynical of the "revoluions" fallacy in historigraphical approaches to the history of sciences.