Archivists at the Royal Society have completed a five-year project to gather a treasure trove of material spanning 400 years of scientific publishing. Until now, these pages from history have only been accessible to visitors to the Royal Society in London.
Discover the first letter submitted to the Royal Society by a woman in her own name; dig through some of the earliest illustrated papers of dinosaur fossils; stumble (safely) across poisonous plant specimens; or peer over the shoulders of giants, Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, as they scribbled down revolutions in the world of physics. All this and more is free to access on the Royal Society’s new digital portal, Science in the Making.
Scientists and historians, science enthusiasts, or the merely curious, can now delve into the Science in the Making portal to discover the original notes, data, illustrations, letters, and peer reviews connected to iconic scientific papers from the Society’s collections. They can also discover the papers that never made it into print, for being too long, poorly evidenced, or considered by referees to be simply “rubbish”.
The new permanent platform and its contents, in the form of 30,000 archive items and 250,000 individual images, have taken an estimated 15,000 people hours of conservation, digitisation and cataloguing by a team of 18. The oldest items on the portal date back to 1551.
Science in the Making portal: https://makingscience.royalsociety.org
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