{"id":4292,"date":"2009-12-01T08:28:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T08:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/01\/when-men-were-men-and-physics\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T08:28:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T08:28:32","slug":"when-men-were-men-and-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/01\/when-men-were-men-and-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"When Men Were Men, and Physics Was Natural Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Royal Society has launched a spiffy new site that lets you browse highlights of the last 350 years of science<\/a> as published in the Philosophical Transactions<\/cite><\/a> (“Giving Some Accompt of the Present Understanding, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World since 1665.”). These include things like Ben Franklin’s very matter-of-fact instructions for flying a kite in a thunderstorm, Thomas Young’s introduction of the wave theory of light, and Maxwell’s original treatise on electromagnetism. These are available as scanned PDF’s, in all their oddly-typeset glory (you can see them move from setting every s as an f, to only some of them, to finally producing pages that don’t look like a phonetically rendered speech impediment to modern eyes).<\/p>\n

In keeping with the current annoying practice, it’s all Flash, so I can’t link directly to anything within the site, but it’s worth poking around a little. They’ve got some cool stuff in there. The highlighted papers are freely available, too, though you may need a subscription to access other articles in the journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Royal Society has launched a spiffy new site that lets you browse highlights of the last 350 years of science as published in the Philosophical Transactions (“Giving Some Accompt of the Present Understanding, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World since 1665.”). These include things like Ben Franklin’s… Continue reading When Men Were Men, and Physics Was Natural Philosophy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,11,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history_of_science","category-science","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}