Royal Society Offers Free Access to 60 Key Scientific Papers

December 1, 2009

The Royal Society is offering public access to 60 of the most influential, inspiring, and intriguing papers it has published over the last 350 years, including those in the Philosophical Transactions, the oldest continuously published scientific journal in the world. Scientists and historians have chosen the articles from the 60,000 published since the journal first began in 1665. Trailblazing is making the original manuscripts available online for the first time, including Benjamin Franklin’s account of flying a kite in a storm (1752), the Yorkshire cave discovery of the fossilized remains of elephant, tiger, bear, and hyena heralding the study of deep time (1822), and Stephen Hawking’s early writing on black holes (1970).

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