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 Ferdinand of Bulgaria. This assimilation and transference of facts from the History of Science to General History will naturally fall to those interested equally in the facts of history and the progress of science. As a member of this class, the writer has attempted to describe what seems to her the most vital element in the milieu in which modern science was born.

In books dealing with the histories of the various sciences in the seventeenth century and in treatises touching upon any phase of the intellectual development of the period, a few paragraphs or pages are invariably found emphasizing, on the one hand, that science obtained its most valuable, nay indispensable, aid from the scientific societies of the day, and on the other hand, that the universities failed to supply such aid.

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