Henry Oldenburg (and the Philosophical Transactions) [ Science ]
… enhanced by his position as 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 Transactions , came out on 6 March 1665. The first issue of the Journal des Sçavans 6 had … to questions of science and technology. 7 3 . See Maurizio Gotti, ‘Disseminating early modern science: specialized news discourse in the Philosophical Transactions’, in Nicholas Brownlees (ed.), News Discourse in Early Modern Britain …
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