• DOI:10.1086/368462
• Corpus ID: 143379839

The Unity and Diversity of the Mediterranean World

@article{Sarton1936TheUA,
  title={The Unity and Diversity of the Mediterranean World},
  author={George Sarton},
  journal={Osiris},
  year={1936},
  volume={2},
  pages={406 - 463}
}

• G. Sarton
• Published 1 January 1936
• History
• Osiris

i. In January and February I933 I had the honor of delivering eight lectures of the Hitchcock Professorship at the University of California in Berkeley. After my return to Cambridge, I decided to write these lectures as soon as possible and to prepare them for publication. Unfortunately after having written the first one I fell ill and was obliged to go to Jamaica for a few weeks of rest. Since that time one new duty after another has prevented me from writing the other lectures. As long as I had a reasonable hope of completing them and of being able to publish them in book form I refused to countenance the separate publication of lecture I. Indeed it is the policy of Isis (and Osiris) not to publish papers, the republication of which in another form is already foreseen. However, I have lost that hope, for in addition to many other calls upon my time and energy, my main duty is to complete volume III of my Introtroduction to the History of Science devoted to the fourteenth century. Hence I feel that I have now the right to publish that first lecture. This explains its somewhat tardy appearance. Dr. M. C. WELBORN kindly read the manuscript and proofs of this essay and suggested various corrections. The titles of my other (unpublished) Hitchcock lectures may be read in Isis (vol. 20, I3, 1933).