Henry Oldenburg (and the Philosophical Transactions) [ Science ]
… Secretary of the Royal Society, and it was thus that he conceived of the idea of creating a newsletter of scientific information which he could sell to augment his meagre income. The first issue of his newsletter, the Philosophical … News Discourse (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006), p. 205-221; A. Rupert Hall, The Scientific Revolution 1500-1800. The Formation of the Modern Scientific attitude. 2nd edn. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1962). 5 . The correspondence of Henry … issue of the Philosophical Transactions , all of the eleven items were written by Oldenburg himself, on the basis of information he had received in his correspondence. Significantly, one of the items is the translation of the review, which …
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