The
Journal des sçavans (later renamed
Journal des savants), founded by
Denis de SalloDenis de Sallo, Sieur de la Coudraye [pseudonym Sieur d'Hédonville] , French writer, and founder of the first French literary and scientific journal, was born at Paris....
, was the earliest
scientific journalIn academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...
published in
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
, although from the beginning it also carried a proportion of non-scientific material, such as obituaries of famous men, church history, and legal reports. The first edition appeared as a twelve page
quartoQuarto could refer to:* Quarto, a size or format of a book in which four leaves of a book are created from a standard size sheet of paper* For specific information about quarto texts of William Shakespeare's works, see:...
pamphletA pamphlet is an unbound booklet . It may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths , or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and stapled at the crease to make a simple book...
on Monday, 5 January, 1665. This was shortly before the first appearance of the
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of LondonThe Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, or Phil. Trans., is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society.Begun in 1665, it is the oldest scientific journal printed in the English-speaking world and the second oldest in the world, after the French Journal des sçavans...
, on 6 March 1665.
The journal ceased publication in 1792, during the
French RevolutionThe French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based...
, and although it very briefly reappeared in 1797 under the updated title
Journal des savants, it did not re-commence regular publication until 1816.
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The
Journal des sçavans (later renamed
Journal des savants), founded by
Denis de SalloDenis de Sallo, Sieur de la Coudraye [pseudonym Sieur d'Hédonville] , French writer, and founder of the first French literary and scientific journal, was born at Paris....
, was the earliest
scientific journalIn academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...
published in
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
, although from the beginning it also carried a proportion of non-scientific material, such as obituaries of famous men, church history, and legal reports. The first edition appeared as a twelve page
quartoQuarto could refer to:* Quarto, a size or format of a book in which four leaves of a book are created from a standard size sheet of paper* For specific information about quarto texts of William Shakespeare's works, see:...
pamphletA pamphlet is an unbound booklet . It may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths , or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and stapled at the crease to make a simple book...
on Monday, 5 January, 1665. This was shortly before the first appearance of the
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of LondonThe Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, or Phil. Trans., is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society.Begun in 1665, it is the oldest scientific journal printed in the English-speaking world and the second oldest in the world, after the French Journal des sçavans...
, on 6 March 1665.
The journal ceased publication in 1792, during the
French RevolutionThe French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based...
, and although it very briefly reappeared in 1797 under the updated title
Journal des savants, it did not re-commence regular publication until 1816. From then on, the
Journal des savants became more of a literary journal, and ceased to carry significant scientific material.
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