Papers, 1906-1956.

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Papers, 1906-1956.

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Contains Sarton's papers from his student days at the University of Ghent consisting of laboratory notes, 1906-1907, on chemistry, lecture notes, 1908-1910, on astronomy and celestial mechanics, and a treatise, 1908, "Catalyse" on chemistry that he wrote for a contest at the University; letters, 1931-1939, he wrote in Arabic and an Arabic translation of the Imitation of Christ copied and with an English preface by Sarton; and a guestbook, 1941-1956, of visitors to Isis.

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