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“It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek ‘miracle’ was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and possibly in other regions. Greek science was less an invention than a revival.” (George Sarton)
The Belgian chemist George Sarton (d. 1956), who spent most of his academic career at Harvard, is generally considered the founder of the discipline of the history of science.
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