The Journal des sçavans (later renamed Journal des savants), founded by Denis de Sallo, was the earliest scientific journal published in Europe, although from the beginning it also carried a proportion of non-scientific material, such as obituaries of famous men, church history, and legal reports.[1] The first edition appeared as a twelve page quarto pamphlet[2] on Monday, 5 January 1665.[3] This was shortly before the first appearance of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, on 6 March 1665.[4]
The journal ceased publication in 1792, during the French Revolution, and, although it very briefly reappeared in 1797 under the updated title Journal des savants, it did not re-commence regular publication until 1816. From then on, the Journal des savants became more of a literary journal, and ceased to carry significant scientific material.[5][1]
Footnotes
- ^ a b The Amsterdam printing of the Journal des sçavans, Dibner Library of the Smithsonian Institution
- ^ Brown, 1972, p. 368
- ^ Hallam, 1842, p. 406.
- ^ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Vol.1, Issue 1, is dated March 6 1665. See also History of the Journal at http://publishing.royalsociety.org/index.cfm?page=1244
- ^ James, 2004, xv.
References
- Brown, Harcourt (1972). "History and the Learned Journal". Journal of the History of Ideas, 33(3), 365-378.
- Hallam, Henry (1842). Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries. Harper & Brothers.
- James, Ioan (2004). Remarkable Physicists: From Galileo to Yukawa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521017068
- Kilgour, Frederick G. (1998). The Evolution of the Book. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195118596
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