Henry Oldenburg (and the Philosophical Transactions) [ Science ]
… 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 … 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, … attitude. 2nd ed. (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009); Marie Boas Hall, ‘The Royal Society’s role in the diffusion of information in the seventeenth century (1)’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London (29:2, 1975), p. 173-192. …
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