Comments on: Royal Society of London, 1665–

Royal Society of London, 1665–

Sonny Jim — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:26:51 -0800

The Royal Society Digital Archive is now on-line and free to use ... until December. Until that time, every article in its collections, going back to 1665, is freely accessible. Poke around, who knows what you might find ... [pdf]

By: antifuse

antifuse — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:18:55 -0800

Neato! I can finally read up on all the research I read about in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle!

By: thanotopsis

thanotopsis — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:16:23 -0800

Hell, I'm reading System of the World right now, so this is extra cool!

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:31:19 -0800

I ſurely ſuffer ſo much ſeeing the obſolete long s. It is ſweet though ſince I can make them with Unicode.

By: Sk4n

Sk4n — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:42:06 -0800

Great, great find, Sonny Jim. Thanks.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:32:52 -0800

Very cool!

By: econous

econous — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:47:09 -0800

Natural philosophers rock, as does Stephenson's Cycle Baroque.

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:56:46 -0800

Thank you very much for this link, loved Baroque Cycle, and have been deep-digging the early scientist/alchemists a lot lately.

By: taosbat

taosbat — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:45:21 -0800

Very good stuff!

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:09:15 -0800

very good ſtuff you mean.

By: empath

empath — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:17:19 -0800

this is great.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:37:11 -0800

Anyone got a torrent link?

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:29:12 -0800

delmoi: WebGrazer? (Mac)

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:31:06 -0800

OOps, meant WebGrabber. Heh.

By: Spacey

Spacey — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:47:03 -0800

Fascinating. Thank you!

By: logicpunk

logicpunk — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:03:27 -0800

dammit... wish I had seen this before turning in my thesis. It would have been nice to have the citation: Boyle, R. (1665). An Account of a Very Odd Monstrous Calf. Philosphical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1, 10. Fun

By: logicpunk

logicpunk — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:20:39 -0800

Anyone remember this one from Quicksilver?

By: greycap

greycap — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:16:02 -0800

[this is good]

By: taosbat

taosbat — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:44:25 -0800

ſtuff indeed!

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:58:04 -0800

I wish they would leave the historical stuff available for all to read (such as that published before 1950 or so) Only the last 50 years should be behind a pay wall. Also, isn't all of this stuff out of copyright at this point anyway?

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:09:18 -0800

So how big is this archive? 100 gigs would correspond to 250 kbytes/page * 1000 pages/year * 400 years. I might throw a couple hundred gigs at it, if it isn't a pain to scrape.

By: antifuse

antifuse — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:02:51 -0800

Also, isn't all of this stuff out of copyright at this point anyway? Most of it is, yes. So, in theory, one could make copies of it and post it elsewhere. However, that doesn't mean that the owners of it can't decide to charge to view it (like, say, fine art in a museum).