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Excerpt from The Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century The History of Science may be called a stepchild in the family of the Natur - und Geschichtswissenschaften. It is too technical for the historical student, too bookish for the man of the laboratory. Yet if we agree that it is the task of the "New History" to explain what is most vital and fundamental in our civilization to-day, the historian must incorporate many a chapter of the neglected History of Science into his work. For only in this way will he be able to furnish that essential historic background for the achievements of Ehrlich and Madame Curie that he is wont to give to the projects of Lloyd George and King...
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