Royal Society Digital Archive
The Royal Society have made their Digital Archive available free until the end of November. I've quoted from their press release and put URL at bottom of this post. Why should you care? Original papers including those from Fox Talbot can be downloaded FREE! My favourite passage from 'Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing, or the Process by Which Natural Objects May Be Made to Delineate Themselves without the Aid of the Artist's Pencil' (1839) follows: "These philosophers found, ... , that the paper could not be rendered sufficiently sensible to receive any impression whatever from the feeble light of a camera ..." Doesn't this sound familiar? Nothing has changed in 167 years. Tee Hee.... Excuse me while I go render myself sufficiently sensible. Cheers! PAUL QUOTE Nearly three and a half centuries of scientific study and achievement is now available online in the Royal Society Journals Digital Archive following its official launch this week. This is the longest-running and arguably most influential journal archive in Science, including all the back articles of both Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings. For the first time the Archive provides online access to all journal content, from Volume One, Issue One in March 1665 until the latest modern research published today ahead of print. And until December the archive is freely available to anyone on the internet to explore. UNQUOTE http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1373
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