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|Author=Eugene Garfield,
|Year=1985
|Abstract=The year 1984 marked the centennial of the birth of George Alfred Leon Sarton, the
father of the history of science. Sarton was the author of numerous major works in the
field, including the three-volume, 4,236-page opus Introduction to the History of
Science, which many still consider one of the field’s most definitive and ambitious
works. Sarton also founded the field’s primary journal, Isis, which he edited for forty years. But in spite of the importance Sarton placed on the history of science, he considered the discipline a means, not an end. Sarton’s ultimate goal was an integrated philosophy of science that bridged the gap between the sciences and the
humanities-an ideal he called “the new humanism.” The forces and ideas that
molded this idealistic scholar were a unique confluence of his Old World bourgeois upbringing and the experiences under German occupation during World War I that
forced him to seek refuge in the United States
|Journal=Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
|Volume=40
|Pages=107-117
}}
