Materials for the History of the History of ScienceAuthor(s): George SartonSource: Isis, Vol. 27, No. 1 (May, 1937), pp. 6-8Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/225014 .

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Materials for the history of the history of science

It may be worthwhile to put together as has been done in the following list all the articles devoted to historians of science and to scientific philosophers which have hitherto appeared in Isis and Osiris. Indeed these articles constitute materials of the first order for any retrospective survey of our studies. Each is valuable in itself, and enhances the value of every other. It is hoped that this collection will be appreciated by our readers and that it will encourage them to complete it. Each volume of Isis should contain at least one article reviewing the life and work of one of our predecessors. Many of these are still unknown not only to the general public, but even to their own successors.

The biographies hitherto published are arranged in alphabe- tical order. IVIost of them are followed by a bibliography and illustrated with a portrait.

i. BALL, W.W.R. (I850-1925). Isis 8, 321-24, 1926.

2. BERGSTRAESSER, G. (I886-I933). Isis 25, 60-2, 1936.

3. BERTHELOT, M. (i 827-1907). Isis 6, 479-99, 1924.

4. BOSMANS, H. (I852-1928). Isis 12, 88-iI2, 1929.

5. CAJORI, F. (I859-1930). Isis I7, 384-4-07, 1932.

6. CHASLES, MICHEL (1793-I880). Osiris I, 421-50, 1936. 7. DREYER, J.L.E. (I852-1926). Isis 21, 131-44, 19340

8. ENESTR6M, G. (i852-1923). Isis 8, 313-20, 19260

9. FAVARO, A. (I847-1922). Isis 7, 456-67, 1925.

I0. HALLIWELL, J.O. (I820-89). Isis i8, 127-32, 1932.

ii. HARRISON, F. (i831-1923). Isis 6, 387-90, 1924.

12. HEIBERG, J.L. (I854-1928). Isis II, 367-74, I9280

13. HOPPE, E. (I854-1928). Isis 13, 45-50, 1929.

140 HOUSSAY, F. (I860-1920). Isis 7, 433-55, 1925.

15. IRSAY, S.DW. (i894-1934). Isis 24, 370-74, 1936.

i6. JOHNSSON, J.W.S. (i868-1929). Isis 13, 320-24, 1930e

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MATERIALS FOR THE HISTORY OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE 7

I7. JOURDAIN, PH. E. B. (i879-1919). Isis 5, 126-36, 1923.

i8. LITTRE1, E. (i8oi-8i). Isis 8, 77-102, 1926.

19. MILHAUD, G. (I858-I9I8). Isis 3, 391-95, 1921.

20. MONTUCLA, J.E. (1725-99). Osiris 1, 5I9-67, 1936.

21. RIGNANO, E. (I870-1930). Isis 15, 158-62, 1931.

22. SCHOCH, C. (I873-1929). Isis 15, I63-69, 1931.

23. SCHOY, C. (i877-1925). Isis 9, 83-95, 19270

24. SMITH, E.F. (I854-1928). Isis II, 375-84, 1928.

25. SPENCER, H. (I820-1903). Isis 3, 375-90, 1921.

26. SUTER, HI. (I848-1922). Isis 5, 409-17, 1923;

i8, I66-83, 1932. 27. VASSILIEFF, A.V. (I855-1929). Isis 14, 342-48, 19300

28. WIEDEMANN, E. (I852-1928). Isis I4, i66-86, 1930.

29. WIELEITNER, H. (I874-1931). Isis i8, 150-65, 1932.

It is interesting to rename these men in chronological order of their death years, as follows: 1799 MONTUCLA

i 88o CHASLES

i88i LITTRE'

I889 HALLIWELL

1903 SPENCER

1907 BERTHELOT

19I8 MILHAUD

1919 JOURDAIN

1920 HOUSSAY

1922 FAVARO

SUTER

1923 ENESTROM

HARRISON

1925 BALL

SCHOY

1926 DREYER

1928 BOSMANS

HEIBERG

'HOPPE

SMITH, E.F. WIEDEMANN

1929 JOHNSSON

SCHOCH

VASSILIEFF

1930 CAJORI

RIGNANO

1931 WIELEITNER

1933 BERGSTRAESSER

1934 D'IRSAY

To conclude we may be permitted to recall that every volume of Osiris is dedicated to a living historian of science, and contains biographical data concerning him as well as a full bibliography and a portrait. Vol. i was dedicated to DAVID EUGENE SMITH,

historian of mathematics, vol. 2 to Sir THOMAS L. HEATH, historian of Greek mathematics, and vol. 3 will be dedicated to E. 0. v. LIPPMANN, historian of chemistry. Thus a collection of Osiris

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8 G. SARTON

will constitute a series of monuments in remembrance of great historians of science. In order to evidence this, we would advise our readers to have the name of each historian printed by the binder upon the back of the volume dedicated to him.

Cambridge, Mass. GEORGE SARTON.

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