George Sarton

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George Alfred Leon Sarton (1884-1956) was a seminal Belgian-American polymath, historian of science, and father of the writer, May Sarton. He wrote the classical History of Science, The Study of the History of Science, and the five volume Introduction to the History of Science, which only reached from Homer to the end of the fourteenth century.

Sarton was convinced that the study of the History of science was the only truly progressive history. "Whatever material and intellectual progress there is can be traced back in each case to the discovery of some new secret of nature or to a deeper understanding of an old one."George Sarton, "The New Humanism," Isis, 6(1924):10 He is credited with launching the formal study of the history of science in the United States as well as with creating the most noted academic journal in the subject, Isis.

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Sarton, George. "The New Humanism," Isis, 6(1924):9-24.

Sarton, George. Introduction to the History of Science (3 v. in 5), Carnegie institution of Washington Publication no. 376. Baltimore, 1927.

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