The Renaissance and Historians of Science
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Twenty years have passed since the Surveys of Recent Scholarship in the Period of the Renaissance were planned for the Committee on Renaissance Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies, offprints of which were grouped in a brochure circulated under the date of 1945. Any review of progress in these fields ought to start with these useful compendia, even though several important areas were not explored at that time. Science was abundantly documented by Francis Johnson and Sanford Larkey, whose critical evaluations afforded a guide to the physical sciences and mathematics, including astronomy, geography, and cartography, as well as the principal parts of biology.
Annemarie Schimmel, As Through a Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam, Lectures on the History of Religions sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, New Series, Vol. 12 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982). Pp. 221.
