C. HISTORY OF SCIENCE 



14. CHIEF REFERENCE BOOKS 

 ON THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE 



LtiDwiG Darmstaedter (1846-1927): Handbuch zur Geschichte der Natur- 

 wissenschaften und der Technik (Zweite Auflage, 1272 p., Berlin 1908). Chrono- 

 logical list of discoveries year by year. Valuable, but to be used with caution. 



George Sarton: Introduction to the History of Science. Vol. 1, From Homer 

 to Omar Khayyam (Baltimore, 1927). Vol. 2, in two parts. From Rabbi ben 

 Ezra to Roger Bacon (1931). Vol. 3, in two parts. Science and Learning in the 

 Fourteenth Century (1948). 



This is a very elaborate treatise and bibliography, but it extends only to the 

 year 1400. It is closely interlocked with Isis; there are references to Isis on almost 

 every page, enabling the reader to obtain rapidly more information; on the other 

 hand, errata and addenda are published from time to time in the Critical Bibliogra- 

 phies of Isis. 



See also biographical collections, especially those concerning men of science, 

 dealt with in section 6. 



