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PAPERBACK, very good. THACKRAY, ARNOLD, ed. . Isis: Sarton, science and history : the Sarton centennial issue. Volume 75, Number 276, March 1984. Philadelpha: University of Pennsylvania, Department of history and sociology of Science, 1984, 240pp., . Isis : an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences.

Series: The Chemical Sciences in Society Series. 8vo. xi, 268 pp. Figs., index. Green silver-stamped cloth, dust-jacket. Near fine. Thackray "sees his main contributions to the history of science as lying at the intersection of intellectual and institutional innovation". Arnold Thackray is an emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Initially an English chemist, he became an entrepreneurial American. Dr. Thackray has been active in the public life of scholarship, serving on a number of boards, including that of the American Council on Education. He is a former President of the Society for Social Studies of Science, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr. Thackray was the Treasurer of the American Council of Learned Societies from 1985 to 1996, and is currently a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania Press. He has twice been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, has served as George Sarton lecturer of AAAS, and is a recipient of the Dexter Award of the American Chemical Society. ISBN 10: 0812234286.