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• Garfield (1985)  + (The year 1984 marked the centennial of the … The year 1984 marked the centennial of the birth of George Alfred Leon Sarton, the</br>father of the history of science. Sarton was the author of numerous major works in the</br>field, including the three-volume, 4,236-page opus Introduction to the History of</br>Science, which many still consider one of the field’s most definitive and ambitious</br>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</br>humanities-an ideal he called “the new humanism.” The forces and ideas that</br>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</br>forced him to seek refuge in the United Statesed him to seek refuge in the United States)

• Garfield (1985)  +