Henry Oldenburg (and the Philosophical Transactions) [ Science ]
… devoted to science and technology. Henry Oldenburg was closely involved with the Royal Society . Although he was not present at the founding meeting, 1 which took place at Gresham College on 28 November 1660, his name was on a list of … through letters. Although these letters were sent from one individual to another, they were not private letters in the present-day sense; it was generally understood that the writer’s intention was that they should be copied, sent on, read … and London were in fairly close contact is evidenced by the fact that the first issue of the Journal des Sçavans was presented to the Royal Society, by Oldenburg, only six days after it had appeared in Paris. Since the Royal Society had a …
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