Aileen Fyfe - Referees, Editors, and Printers in the Making of Scientific Knowledge
Lectures in Intellectual History
English - May 27, 2014 17:00 - 50 minutes - 12.2 MB - ★★★★ - 52 ratingsHistory Society & Culture Philosophy culture education history lecture philosophy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Why is journal publication so important in the history of science, and how are they responsible for the making of scientific knowledge? In this lecture, Aileen Fyfe reveals the story behind the pages of the oldest scientific journal in existence, the Philosophic Transactions of the Royal Society.