| Zusammenfassung: | ABSTRACT The early years of Isis are examined in the lightof George Sarton's connection with Paul Otlet (1868–1944) andHenri Lafontaine (1854–1943), founders in 1895 of the InternationalOffice of Bibliography and in 1907 of the Union of International Associations,both in Brussels. Otlet, known as one of the fathers of the InformationAge, invented the science of information, which he called, in French, documentation. Lafontaine, a socialist senator in Belgium,won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Peace. Sarton shared Otlet and Lafontaine'sviews about pacifism, internationalism, and rational bibliography;he designed Isis to fit with the modernist goal,expressed by Otlet and Lafontaine, of using information to generatenew knowledge.
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