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CONFRONTED with this volume, for which the only adjective at all appropriate is ‘colossal,’ one can appreciate the feelings of the rustics before Goldsmiths schoolmaster:
Introduction to the History of Science.
By George Sarton. Vol. 1: From Homer to Omar Khayyam. (Published for the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Publication No. 376.) Pp. xi plus; 839. (Baltimore, Md.: Willams and Wilkins Co., 1927.) 10 dollar.
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HOLMYARD, E. A Treasury of Learning. Nature 120, 648–649 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120648a0
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