120 Treatises and Handbooks 



Pledge, Humphry Thomas: 



1939: Science since 1500. A short history of mathematics, physics, chemistry 

 and biology (359 p., 15 pi., 6 charts, 6 maps, London; Isis 33, 74). 



The author is librarian of the Science Museum, Kensington, London, and has 

 been able to avail himself of its rich collections. 



Powell, Baden (1796-1860): 



1834: Historical view of the progress of the physical and mathematical sciences 

 from the earhest ages to the present time (412 p. London). In Dionysius Lardner 

 (1793-1859), Cabinet cyclopaedia. Natural philosophy. New edition, 1837. 



Pioneer history of mathematical and physical sciences, preceding Whewell's. 

 The author was Savilian professor of geometry in Oxford from 1827 to 1860. His 

 children adopted the surname Baden-Powell; one of them. Lord Robert Baden- 

 Powell (1857-1941) inaugurated the Boy Scout movement in 1908 and his sister, 

 Agnes, the Girl Guides in 1910. 



Rossiter, Arthur Percival: 



1939: The growth of science. An outline history (372 p., Cambridge Ortho- 

 logical Institute; Isis 33, 74). 



The author is concerned chiefly with the relations of science and society; his 

 book is viTitten in Basic English. 



Sedgwick, William Thompson (1855-1921); Tyler, Harry Walter (1863-1938): 

 1917: A short history of science (New York). — This unsatisfactory primer was 



considerably improved in the second edition prepared after Sedgwick's death by 



Tyler with Robert Payne Bigelow (1863- ) (New York 1939; Isis 32, 464; 



33, 74). 



Sedgwick and Bigelow were professors of biology and Tyler, of mathematics, 



in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Sedgwick 



and Tyler gave one of the pioneer courses in the history of science in that institute. 



Biography of Tyler by Bigelow in Isis (31, 60-64, 1939). 



Singer, Charles: 



1941: A short history of science to the nineteenth century (414 p., 94 ills., 

 Oxford, Clarendon Press; Isis 34, 177-80). 



Singer is the leading historian of science in the British Empire; his scientific 

 training was in medicine and biology. 



Tannery, Paul ( 1843-1904 ) : 



1912-43: Memoires scientifiques, edited by Marie Tannery and others (16 vols.; 

 for reviews see Isis 38, 49 or Introd. 3, 1906). 



The French mathematician. Tannery, was one of the earliest and greatest his- 

 torians of science. His main investigations concerned ancient science, mediaeval 

 science and the seventeenth century, but his range of knowledge was truly en- 

 cyclopaedic. See biography by Sarton (Isis 38, 33-51, 1947). 



Taylor, Frank Sherwood ( 1897- ) : 



1939: Short history of science (334 p., 14 pi., 36 fig., London). — The Ameri- 

 can edition has an additional title: The march of mind (New York 1939; Isis 32. 

 465; 34, 74). New edition 1949 (Isis 41, 391). 



1945: Science, past and present (275 p., ill., London). 



Taylor is a chemist and classical scholar and is much interested in the vulgariza- 

 tion of science, and the relations of science with religion, especially with Catholicism. 

 He was director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and is now director of the 

 Science Museum in London. 



Thomdike, Lynn ( 1882- ) : 



1923-41: A history of magic and experimental science during the first thirteen 

 centuries of our era (2 vols.. New York: Isis 6, 74-89); ... in the fifteenth century 

 (2 vols.. New York 1934; Isis 23, 471-75); The sixteenth century (2 vols., New 

 York 1941; Isis 33, 691-712). 



