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Philosophical Transactions: giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious in many Considerable Parts of the World. Vol. I. For Anno 1665, and 1666 [- Vol. XXX

by [ROYAL SOCIETY]. [NEWTON, Isaac; HOOKE, Robert; HALLEY, Edmond; FLAMSTEED, John; BOYLE, Robert; et al.]

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London: Various printers to the Royal Society, 1732. 1665-1732. First edition of the first 426 issues, an unbroken run from March 1665 to December 1732, of the world's oldest continuous scientific journal and the single most important record of the first announcement of scientific discoveries and inventions. It contains groundbreaking research by Newton - the seventeen optical papers of 1672-1676 that begin with his first printed contribution to science - and by Halley, Hooke, Boyle, Flamsteed, Leeuwenhoek, Cassini, and Huygens, with Bradley's discovery of the aberration of light and Gray's founding conduction experiments. The set contains both issues of the celebrated number 27 of 1667 - the suppressed original announcing the first blood transfusion performed on man, printed while Oldenburg sat in the Tower, and Oldenburg's replacement - a pairing preserved in only a handful of recorded sets. Provenance: armorial bookplate of Sir Marcus Beresford, later Earl of Tyrone (1694-1763); contemporary inscription noting one issue's donation by Robert Hooke; manuscript corrections and notes on more than eighty pages. Long unbroken runs of the early decades are of the greatest rarity.. The World's Oldest Continuous Scientific Journal. First edition of the first 426 issues, an unbroken run from March 1665 to December 1732, of the world's oldest continuous scientific journal and the single most important record of the first announcement and communication of scientific discoveries and in

  • Publisher: Various printers to the Royal Society
  • Year: 1732
  • Edition: 1665-1732
  • Binding: unknown

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