Scientific and Technical Periodicals of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Scientific and Technical Periodicals of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 362

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The scientific and technical periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries are a primary source for the study of one of the most interesting periods in our intellectual history. The author has collected and collated titles and information regarding them from a large number of sources to construct an alphabetical list of 1,851 periodicals, including those issued by the scientific and learned societies of this period in all the countries of Europe and America, from 1665, when Philosophical Transactions made its first appearance, to the end of the eighteenth century.

Materials in Eighteenth-century Science
Materials in Eighteenth-century Science

Author: Ursula Klein

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0262113066

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In this history of materials, the authors link chemical science with chemical technology, challenging our current understandings of objects in the history of science and the distinction between scientific and technological objects. They further show that chemits' experimental production and understanding of materials changed over time, first in the decades around 1700 and then around 1830, when mundane materials became clearly distinguished from true chemical substances.

Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Author: J. L. Heilbron

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 622

ISBN-13: 0520334604

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0871694077

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A History of Scientific Journals
A History of Scientific Journals

Author: Aileen Fyfe

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2022-10-03

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 1800082320

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Modern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac Newton’s day: it is more professional, collaborative and international, with more complicated equipment and a more diverse community of researchers. Yet the use of scientific journals to report, share and store results is a thread that runs through the history of science from Newton’s day to ours. Scientific journals are now central to academic research and careers. Their editorial and peer-review processes act as a check on new claims and findings, and researchers build their careers on the list of journal articles they have published. The journal that reported Newton’s optical experiments still exists. First published in 1665, and now fully digital, the Philosophical Transactions has carried papers by Charles Darwin, Dorothy Hodgkin and Stephen Hawking. It is now one of eleven journals published by the Royal Society of London. Unrivalled insights from the Royal Society’s comprehensive archives have enabled the authors to investigate more than 350 years of scientific journal publishing. The editorial management, business practices and financial difficulties of the Philosophical Transactions and its sibling Proceedings reveal the meaning and purpose of journals in a changing scientific community. At a time when we are surrounded by calls to reform the academic publishing system, it has never been more urgent that we understand its history.

Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change
Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change

Author: Ellen Krefting

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9004293116

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Periodicals were an essential medium during eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The era’s growing number of newspapers and journals made possible a fast and vast dissemination of ideas and debates. Journals were a particularly important means of transmitting ideas, genres, texts, and pieces of information from country to country, from centre to periphery, and from press to subscribers. These journals became agents of change by mediating the increasingly profound and widespread urge to write and read and to engage in political debate. This volume, edited by Ellen Krefting, Aina Nøding and Mona Ringvej, presents contributions that explore this media revolution from a Northern perspective. The chapters throw new light on the reception of Enlightenment ideas and practices in Denmark–Norway, Sweden–Finland, and beyond. Taken together, they make a strong case for the transnational and revolutionary character of the Enlightenment as a whole.

"Devant Le Deluge" and Other Essays on Early Modern Scientific Communication

Author: David Abraham Kronick

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780810850033

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Fifteen readable essays examine topics such as editorial policy in the early journals, the economic side of scientific publishing in the 17th and 18th centuries, aspects of journal indexing, early modern scientific networks, and the issues of authorship and authority. The whole constitutes a body of work that reveals both the richness and scope for further inquiry that has motivated Kronick for decades.