Passion of George Sarton: A Modern Marriage and Its Discipline, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 260)

by Lewis Pyenson

George Sarton animated the discipline of history of science (HoS) in America. This vol. traces his youth & educ. in Belgium, & his marriage to Mabel Elwes. It follows the Sarton's in their path from idealistic refugees fleeing the invasion of Belgium in 1914 to destitute intellectuals at Harvard Univ. For 50 years, HoS as an acad. specialty owed much to Sarton's visions & anxieties, esp. as they were expressed in his marriage. Mabel Sarton sustained...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871692600
• ISBN13: 9780871692603
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 470 Pages