Newspaper of the scientists

the Newspaper of the sçavans , become later Newspaper of the scientists , is oldest periodic arts person and scientific of Europe. The first number appeared with Paris on January 5th 1665 in the form of a bulletin of twelve pages announcing its objective to make known “what occurs again in the Republic from the letters”.

In the warning of this first number, it was specified that it was a question of giving an account of the principal works appearing in Europe, to publish obituaries on the famous men, to make known the new discoveries in arts and sciences, including the Physique and the Chimie, the inventions Mécanique S and Mathématiques, the weather observations celestial and and the discoveries anatomical, to examine the legal decisions courts laic, ecclesiastical and university, and finally to bring all that was likely to interest the men of letters or them back “ sçavans”, in other words all cultivated people.

Among the ten articles published in this same number, one could read a report/ratio on the birth of a monster with Oxford, a note on the new telescopes of Giuseppe Campani, a comment on the new edition of the treaty of Descartes, Of the man , and a report of the last publications on the history of the Église of Africa.

If its contents concerned to a large extent the literary gazette rather than the scientific newspaper, the Journal of the sçavans did not play of it less one considerable part in the diffusion of the scientific knowledge by allowing the communication between scientists. The number of article devoteds to sciences, often illustrated engravings on wood, increased with the passing of years. Also the readers of the Journal were the first with being informed publication of the Micrographie of Robert Hooke, development of the first ship with double hull by William Petty, of the invention of the arithmetic balance by Cassini, of the use which made Robert Holmes Horloge S of Huygens on board the Reserve , or of the experiments undertaken by Ole Roemer to determine the Speed of light.

The publication of the first number of the Journal of the sçavans immediately aroused the interest of the members of the Royal Society of London. Hardly three months later, on March 6th, 1665, a similar newspaper, but devoted more especially to the new observations and scientific experiments, was launched by Henry Oldenburg under the title Philosophical Transactions . This periodical, whose forever stopped publication, was used as model with all the later scientific newspapers in Europe. It was soon followed in Italy by the Giornale de' letterati in 1668, then in Germany by the Acta eruditorum Lipsiensium of Otto Mencke in 1682.

In province, the Journal of the sçavans was counterfeited and had thus a slightly different pagination. With Lyon, second intellectual center and of printing works of the Kingdom after Paris, the printer Thomas Amaulry made appear a counterfeited version of this publication, with the greatest joy of the local scholars.

History

Been based under the patronage of Colbert by Denis de Sallo, adviser at the Parliament, the Newspaper of the sçavans was directed successively by the abbot Welsh (1666-1674), the abbot Jean-Paul of the Castling (1674-1687) supported by the abbot Cureau of the Room and Louis Cousin (1687-1701). Irregular weekly magazine until 1723, it appeared monthly until in 1792, date on which it was removed. During this period, several parallel editions, of which one in Latin, and many counterfeits were published in Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne.

Restored and renamed Newspaper of the scientists in 1816, it as of was then written by members of the Institut of France and was printed with the HMSO, with for directors Pierre-Claude-François Daunou (1816-1838), Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (1838-1872), Charles Giraud (1873-1881) and Léopold Delisle (1896-1907). As from 1908, the publication of the Journal of the scientists was entrusted to the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities.

The the newspaper of the scientists is directed today by Jean Marcadé and Philippe Contamine and appears twice a year.

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