6-1-1888. H. Poincaré à George Sarton
[Ca. May, 1912]
Monsieur,
Il m’est malheureusement impossible de collaborer activement à votre revue; je ne pourrais donc vous donner qu’un appui purement moral.
Si vous voulez bien vous en contenter, je ne vous le refuserai pas.11endnote: 1 When Sarton launched the journal Isis in Ghent in May, 1913, he listed Poincaré as a member of the Patronage Committee, alongside thirty-three others, including Svante Arrhenius, Wilhelm Ostwald, William Ramsay, and H.-G. Zeuthen. Poincaré was the only deceased member of this committee, and the only physicist, which prompted Sarton to solicit H.A. Lorentz to take his place; see Sarton to Lorentz, 2 May, 1913, Lorentz Papers, Noord-Hollands Rijksarchief. Sarton sent Lorentz the first issue of Isis, which features a photographic portrait of Poincaré as frontispiece, along with a short obituary (Sarton, 1913c). The photo was provided by Poincaré’s widow, and had accompanied Sarton’s extended obituary of Poincaré in the journal Ciel et terre (Sarton, 1913a, b).
Votre bien dévoué,
Poincaré
ALS 1p. George Sarton additional papers, Box 20, bMS Am 1803 (1147), Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Time-stamp: " 9.10.2023 15:28"
Notes
- 1 When Sarton launched the journal Isis in Ghent in May, 1913, he listed Poincaré as a member of the Patronage Committee, alongside thirty-three others, including Svante Arrhenius, Wilhelm Ostwald, William Ramsay, and H.-G. Zeuthen. Poincaré was the only deceased member of this committee, and the only physicist, which prompted Sarton to solicit H.A. Lorentz to take his place; see Sarton to Lorentz, 2 May, 1913, Lorentz Papers, Noord-Hollands Rijksarchief. Sarton sent Lorentz the first issue of Isis, which features a photographic portrait of Poincaré as frontispiece, along with a short obituary (Sarton, 1913c). The photo was provided by Poincaré’s widow, and had accompanied Sarton’s extended obituary of Poincaré in the journal Ciel et terre (Sarton, 1913a, b).