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Contributors: Julie McDougall-Waters; Noah Moxham; Aileen Fyfe; Phil Hurst; Stefan Janusz; Jo McManus; Keith Moore; Karen Newman; Stuart Taylor; Geoff Belknap; Kevin Johnson; Bob Richardson; The Science Museum; St Bride’s Printing Library
This commemorative brochure accompanies
an exhibition at the royal society from
December 2014 to June 2015, to celebrate
the 350th anniversary of the Philosophical
Transactions. The exhibition showcases the
work being carried out by the ‘Publishing the
Philosophical Transactions: the social, cultural
and economic history of a learned journal,
1665 – 2015’ project. The project runs from
2013 to 2017, and is led by Aileen Fyfe at
the University of St Andrews and funded by
the Arts and Humanities Research Council
(Grant K001841/1). Researchers Noah Moxham
and Julie McDougall-Waters are working in
collaboration with the royal society’s library
and publishing divisions to investigate the
challenges and opportunities of scholarly
publishing over the past 350 years.
As well as the exhibition, the project team is
organising a variety of other events in 2015,
including a major academic conference
in March. by 2017, the team plans to have
written the definitive history of the commercial
and editorial practices of the Philosophical
Transactions. It is also using the royal
society’s archive to compile a series of
historical economic data series relating to
the book trade, which will be made freely
available online.
Curated by:
Julie McDougall-Waters, Noah Moxham
and Aileen Fyfe.
Acknowledgements:
The project team wish to thank the following
for their generous assistance:
Phil Hurst, Stefan Janusz, Jo McManus, Keith
Moore, Karen Newman, and Stuart Taylor at
the Royal Society
Geoff Belknap at the University of Leicester,
Kevin Johnson at the Science Museum, and
Bob Richardson at St Bride’s Printing Library
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Curated by Julie McDougall-Waters, Noah Moxham and Aileen Fyfe.
Acknowledgements The project team wish to thank the following for their generous assistance: Phil Hurst, Stefan Janusz, Jo McManus, Keith Moore, Karen Newman, and Stuart Taylor at the Royal Society Geoff Belknap at the University of Leicester, Kevin Johnson at the Science Museum, and Bob Richardson at St Bride’s Printing Library
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Cover A drawing of William Barlow’s underwater diving apparatus submitted to Philosophical Transactions in 1736
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350 years of publishing at the Royal Society (1665 – 2015)
Foreword from the president Among the Royal Society’s many and varied contributions to the development of modern science, one of the most lastingly important was quietly announced in an ordinary meeting in February 1665. The first publication of the Philosophical Transactions, whose 350th anniversary the Society is celebrating throughout this year, had a range of implications as staggering as many of the world-altering papers that