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Sarton on the History of Science / George Sarton; Dorothy Stimson, Dorothy Stimson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sarton, George, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naturwissenschaften.
- Science.
- Science--History.
- Local Subjects:
- Science--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (399 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- CONTENTS
- Biographical Note
- I
- History of Science
- Four Guiding Ideas
- Acta atque Agenda
- The Scientific Basis of the History of Science
- II
- Avicenna: Physician, Scientist and Philosopher ( 980- 1037)
- Maimonides: Philosopher and Physician ( 1135 - 1204)
- The Quest for Truth: A Brief Account of Scientific Progress during the Renaissance
- Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 )
- Simon Stevin of Bruges (1548-1620)
- Rumphius, Plinius Indicus [the East Indian Pliny] (1628-1702)
- Montucla (1725-1799) His Life and Works
- Quetelet ( 1796-1874 )
- Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858 )
- Moseley (1887-1915) The Numbering of the Elements
- III
- [English as an International Language]: A Letter to the Editor of the New York Evening Post, Februaiy 22, 1919
- The Tower of Babel
- Notes on the Reviewing of Learned Books
- Incunabula Wrongly Dated
- Iconographie Honesty
- The Study of Early Scientific Textbooks
- Remarks Concerning the History of Twentieth-Century Science
- The Work of a Historian of Science
- A Summing Up
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-43273-8
- OCLC:
- 1013947753
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