THIS is the book everyone should have been reading instead of T.S. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions! It's far more subtle, historically and scientifically accurate, and much more indebted to actual scientific inquiry, experiment, analysis, theory and assessment of results.
(For concise review, see Jerome Ravetz (1965), Isis 56.1:86-87.)
Then turn to Gerald Holton's wonderful works. Like Kuhn, Nash and Holton worked in or alongside J.B. Conant's general scientific education program, using the case studies approach. Unlike Kuhn, Nash and Holton remained at Harvard and continued in the physical sciences (chemistry, physics, resp.).