STAKING OUT CULTURE IN WRITING HISTORY OF SCIENCE: ANALYSIS BASED ON GEORGE SARTONS WORK, INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

This article aims to analyze George Sartons postulate in the writing of history of science, based on his famous work named, Introduction to the History of Science. It tends to provide histographical debate concerning Sartons work on the involvement of various cultural and scientific activities from every civilization (ancient times to the 14th century A.D as well as the scholars involved). Qualitative research approach is used to investigate and is analyzed through histographical debate. The findings of this article say that George Sartons history of science was written in relation to a particular race as different racial cultures produce different sciences. Hence, writing history of science needs to be discussed in the context of a particular race. The article concludes that science and culture are mutually related. This relationship causes the existence of science to be greatly significant in a culture, and vice versa.