Essays in the History of Science

Abstract

THIS is the first volume of a new series intended to be supplementary to the well-known quarterly journal I sis, the organ of the History of Science Society and of the International Academy of the History of Science; the series is to contain the longer articles, each volume constituting a special number, while Isis will continue to be a quarterly journal containing the shorter articles, reviews, notes and correspondence. The present large volume is, most appropriately, dedicated to Prof. David Eugene Smith, of Columbia University, New York, the veteran historian of mathematics and author of many other mathematical works. It is a pleasure to see so fitting and worthy a tribute paid to Prof. Smith on the occasion of his seventy-sixth birthday.

Osiris

Vol. 1: A Volume of Studies on the History of Mathematics and the History of Science. Presented to Prof. David Eugene Smith on his 76th Birthday (Jan. 21, 1936). Edited by George Sarton, with the cooperation of Prof. R. C. Archibald, Miss B. M. Frick, Dr. A. Pogo. Pp. 777. (Bruges: The Saint Catherine Press, Ltd., 1936.) 6 dollars (to members of the History of Science Society, 5 dollars).