science history

[sky otter]

ok..let's see which knuckle gets it with this..

i have always thought it would be cool to be able to read the actual reports of old science
i may be alone in this but if not you may want to check out two things

Archives made free Benjamin Franklin's account of his electric kite experiment (in 1752) and Isaac Newton's first scientific paper (1671) are among almost 70,000 historical scientific papers now freely accessible online, after Britain's Royal Society opened up its journal archive. The archive goes back to 1665, when Philosophical Transactions first appeared. From 26 October, all papers published more than 70 years ago are free to view, and the archive is fully searchable. See go.nature.com/wka6bw for more.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/10/royal_society_frees_up_journal_1.html


and the natrue news site where this info is listed as just one of the articles

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111102/full/479010a.html


as always   IN~JOY

[A51Watcher]

 

VERY nice find!

[sky otter]

thanks

[Somamech]

Awesome find.   

[Somamech]

Have to thank the Beebs for finding this one

Monsieur Auzout's Speculations of the Changes, Likely to be Discovered in the Earth and Moon, by Their Respective Inhabitantsby:

http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/1/1-22/120.full.pdf+html?sid=d49606c3-3688-434a-a9cf-b4737824ab13

[Pimander]

There should be a few gems hidden in that archive.  Don't forget that The Royal Society has it's origins in Rosicrucianism.  Thanks for posting.

[Somamech]

Totally with you there Pim 

When I had some spare time at work tonight I hunted for Tibet but I didn't garner any results.... Which may come down to how to utilise their search functions better than I did in a bit of down time. 

I'm hopeful at least  hehe     

[burntheships]

i have always thought it would be cool to be able to read the actual reports of old science

Way awesome! Sky, great find, and thanks for sharing!
I get called a "girl nerd" so often, I might as well indulge!

[starwarp2000]

Add these to your list of must reads, Sky!

Radiation, light and illumination; a series of engineering lectures delivered at Union College by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1918)

http://ia600502.us.archive.org/15/items/radiationlight00steirich/

Theory &Amp; Calculation Of Electrical Apparatus (1917)

http://ia700504.us.archive.org/3/items/TheoryAndCalculationOfElectricalApparatus/

Electric Discharges,Waves And Impulses (1914)

http://ia700402.us.archive.org/4/items/ElectricDischargesWavesAndImpulses/

You can choose from djvu, pdf and epub 

Steinmetz was a contemporary of Tesla and Eric Dollard raves about him!