This idea has a literary corollary: the scientific biography, a genre that dates at least to the early 18th century and is flourishing today.

He is writing a scientific biography of Fred Sanger.

He is a historian by training and his special interests are astronomy and scientific biography.

His scientific biography is currently being written by former colleague Kenneth Holmes.

Hoffman did not intend to produce a scholarly scientific biography.

Yet you have carelessly handed a scientific biography to a man ill equipped to review it.

The particular challenge of scientific biography is not only to get the science right but also to make it accessible.

His scientific biography is currently being written by Paul Wasserman.

Internationally he is best known for his scientific biography of Christiaan Huygens.

Who better than he, therefore, to write a scientific biography of Newton?