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==== Research travels ==== |
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Sarton intended to complete an exhaustive nine-volume [[history of science]] entitled Introduction to the History of Science. During the preparation of the second volume, he learned [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and traveled around the Middle East for part of his research, inspecting original manuscripts of [[Science in medieval Islam|Islamic scientists]]. During his time in the Middle East, he helped to institutionalize the school of Spanish [[Arabist]]s.{{Cite journal|last=Glick|first=Thomas|date=December 1985|title=George Sarton and the Spanish Arabists|journal=Isis|volume=67|pages=489}} Sarton began working with the school of Spanish Arabists in 1928, then led by [[Julián Ribera|Julian Ribera y Tarrago]] and [[Miguel Asín Palacios|Miguel Asin Palacios]]. The Spanish Arabists contributed to [[Isis (journal)|Isis]] and Sarton had some of their articles published in Isis. Sarton shared more views in common with the Spanish Arabists than he did with other historians of science. They had similar views on what constitutes science. Sarton and the Spanish also shared similar views on [[diffusion]]. He led a group of scholars who acted as patrons to the Spanish.{{Cite journal|last=Glick|first=Thomas|title=George Sarton and the Spanish Arabists|journal=Isis|year=1985|volume=76|issue=4|pages=493|doi=10.1086/353959|jstor=233023|s2cid=144270576}} Sarton acknowledged that Julian Ribera was the leading Spanish Arabist. Sarton also was interested and wrote articles on Ribera's research on the transition of Eastern music to the West. Sarton later associated his interest in scientific diffusion with Ribera's interest in the transmission of music because in medieval times, music was commonly associated with mathematics and a part of the [[quadrivium]]. Sarton believed that the Islamic contribution to science was the most "progressive" element in medieval learning and was outraged when Western medieval studies ignored it. By the time of his death, he had completed only the first three volumes: I. From Homer to Omar Khayyam; II. From Rabbi Ben Ezra to [[Roger Bacon]], pt. 1–2; and III. Science and learning in the fourteenth-century, pt. 1–2. Sarton had been inspired for his project by his study of [[Leonardo da Vinci]], but he had not reached this period in history before dying. However one series of lectures Sarton gave during his first year at Harvard discussed da Vinci and were entitled " Science and Civilization in the Time of Leonardo da Vinci, Scientist and Artist." |
Sarton intended to complete an exhaustive nine-volume [[history of science]] entitled Introduction to the History of Science. During the preparation of the second volume, he learned [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and traveled around the Middle East for part of his research, inspecting original manuscripts of [[Science in medieval Islam|Islamic scientists]]. During his time in the Middle East, he helped to institutionalize the school of Spanish [[Arabist]]s.{{Cite journal|last=Glick|first=Thomas|date=December 1985|title=George Sarton and the Spanish Arabists|journal=Isis|volume=67|pages=489}} Sarton began working with the school of Spanish Arabists in 1928, then led by [[Julián Ribera|Julian Ribera y Tarrago]] and [[Miguel Asín Palacios|Miguel Asin Palacios]]. The Spanish Arabists contributed to [[Isis (journal)|Isis]] and Sarton had some of their articles published in Isis. Sarton shared more views in common with the Spanish Arabists than he did with other historians of science. They had similar views on what constitutes science. Sarton and the Spanish also shared similar views on [[diffusion]]. He led a group of scholars who acted as patrons to the Spanish.{{Cite journal|last=Glick|first=Thomas|title=George Sarton and the Spanish Arabists|journal=Isis|year=1985|volume=76|issue=4|pages=493|doi=10.1086/353959|jstor=233023|s2cid=144270576}} Sarton acknowledged that Julian Ribera was the leading Spanish Arabist. Sarton also was interested and wrote articles on Ribera's research on the transition of Eastern music to the West. Sarton later associated his interest in scientific diffusion with Ribera's interest in the transmission of music because in medieval times, music was commonly associated with mathematics and a part of the [[quadrivium]]. Sarton believed that the Islamic contribution to science was the most "progressive" element in medieval learning and was outraged when Western medieval studies ignored it. By the time of his death, he had completed only the first three volumes: I. From Homer to Omar Khayyam; II. From [[Abraham ibn Ezra|Rabbi Ben Ezra]] to [[Roger Bacon]], pt. 1–2; and III. Science and learning in the fourteenth-century, pt. 1–2. Sarton had been inspired for his project by his study of [[Leonardo da Vinci]], but he had not reached this period in history before dying. However one series of lectures Sarton gave during his first year at Harvard discussed da Vinci and were entitled " Science and Civilization in the Time of Leonardo da Vinci, Scientist and Artist." |
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=== Posthumous impact === |
=== Posthumous impact === |
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