George Sarton - Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom i

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

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Sarton, George. A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece. Harvard University Press, 1952, p. 57.

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About the Author

George Sarton

Born: August 31, 1884
Died: March 22, 1956
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Biography

George Alfred Leon Sarton was a Belgian-born American chemist and historian. He is considered the founder of the discipline of the history of science as an independent field of study. He has a significant importance in the history of science and his most influential work was the Introduction to the History of Science, which consists of three volumes and 4,296 pages. Sarton ultimately aimed to achieve an integrated philosophy of science that provided a connection between the sciences and the humanities, which he referred to as "the new humanism".

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