Journal des sçavans
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Denis de Sallo
Denis de Sallo, Sieur de la Coudraye [pseudonym Sieur d'Hédonville] , French writer, and founder of the first French literary and scientific journal, was born at Paris....
, was the earliest academic journal
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
published in Europe, that from the beginning also carried a proportion of material that would not now be considered scientific, such as obituaries of famous men, church history, and legal reports. The first edition appeared as a twelve page quarto
Quarto
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pamphlet
Pamphlet
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on Monday, 5 January 1665. This was shortly before the first appearance of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society of London. It was established in 1665, making it the first journal in the world exclusively devoted to science, and it has remained in continuous publication ever since, making it the world's...
, on 6 March 1665.
The journal ceased publication in 1792, during the French Revolution
French Revolution
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, 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.
Further reading
- 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