HISTORY OF SCIENCE. 



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of Isis, for many books, papers, and private communications are sent to the 

 Editor of Isis which would not be sent to me personally. 



During the past year I have edited two numbers of Isis, forming, respec- 

 tively, the end of volume 4 (pp. 455-654) and beginning of vol. 5 (pp. 1-324). 

 They contain 11 papers, 11 shorter communications, 76 reviews, and 1,856 bib- 

 liographic notes. Some of these notes have been contributed by F. E. 

 Brasch (Washington, D. C), A. K. Coomaraswamy (Boston), L. Guinet 

 (Brussels), L. C. Karpinski (Ann Arbor), P. Masson-Oursel (Paris), J. Ruska 

 (Heidelberg), C. Schoy (Essen), H. Wieleitner (Augsburg). 



Fig. 2. — Relative progress of thought among the people speaking: (1) Greek, Syriac, 

 Armenian; (2) Latin and European vernaculars; (.3) Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Persian: 

 (4) Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese. 



3. The New Humanism. — My efforts to advance the study of the History 

 of Science and to promote the New Humanism are naturally convergent. 

 The New Humanism aims at reconciling the classical with the scientific ideals, 

 and is best accomplished by approaching science itself from an historical point 

 of view, and considering not simply its latest stage but the whole of its devel- 

 opment. The sources of knowledge can be reduced to two: nature and 

 history. Either is necessary, neither is sufficient. Knowledge, however, 

 is one. The New Humanism is based upon two correlative notions, unity 

 of knowledge and imity of mankind, both of which are inductively established 

 by the historian of science. 



4. Lectures. — I delivered one lecture at the Wesleyan University in Middle- 

 town, Connecticut, and a course of 43 lectures at Harvard University. The 

 preparation of this course, dealing with the histoiy of science in the eight- 

 eenth and nineteenth centuries, took considerably more time than I had 

 foreseen. It was attended by j&fteen students. 



