Re: Royal Society Digital Archive
Paul, Thanks for letting us know. I see several late nights in my near future... Camden Hardy camden[at]hardyphotography[dot]net http://www.hardyphotography.net On Tue, September 26, 2006 9:12 pm, Arcus, Paul wrote: > 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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