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By George Sarton. Price, $6.75. Pp. 318, with illustrations. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind., 1957.

William B. Bean, M.D., Reviewer

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1959;103(2):334-335.

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The late George Sarton, one of the most distinguished historians of science of our time, was founder and editor of Isis, and of Osiris. The "Six Wings" consists of the substance of the Patten lectures he delivered at Indiana University in 1954-1955. Professor Sarton died in 1956 and thus did not read the proofs or make an index, but someone did them well. A useful running head to the notes sections indicates the pages as well as the usual chapter headings, and so one does not have to go back and forth so much. The typography and printing do justice to the elegance of the lectures, and the beautiful illustrations, mostly portraits of the subjects of the book, are a rich example of the care and love which went into the book. Sarton spared no pains to get the best and most accurate portraits available. Part of the motivation for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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