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A NEW token of the growing interest in the history of science. is provided by the appearance of the first number of “a quarterly review of the history of science since the Renaissance”, under the title of Annals of Science. This new periodical is edited jointly by Dr. D. McKie of University College, London, Dr. Harcourt Brown, of Washington University, St. Louis, U.S.A., and Mr. H. W. Robinson, librarian of the Royal Society. It aims at dealing with the development of modern science in much the same way as Isis deals with the science of the earlier eras, and to encourage the study of the life and work of the great masters and makers of science. “The personal note in the history of Science,” adds the editorial, “is, indeed, just as interesting and just as valuable as the personal note in the history of Literature or the Arts. And there remain many inviting unworked corners in the field of scientific biography which still await the attention of the interested student and will amply reward his spade-work”. The first issue runs to 113 pages, and includes seven articles and two signed book-reviews.
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Journal of the History of Science. Nature 137, 220 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137220b0
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