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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

Index to early volumes of 'Philosophical Transactions'

Reference number: MS/624

Date: c.1770

Description

Large folio, unbound. Likely prepared by John Robertson FRS, appointed librarian (clerk, housekeeper and keeper of the Repository) in December 1767.
The index is organised thematically: 'Optics'; 'Astronomy'; 'Magnetism'; 'Pneumatics'; 'Physiology' 'Hydrology'; 'Painting, Sculpture &c'; 'Births and Burials'; etc.. within each theme, articles are listed and numbered in chronological order of publication with the title, author, then issue number and volume number. The themes are worded near identically to John Lowthorp's Abridgement of the Philosophical Transactions, but MS/624 lists all titles, with no selections, its organisation of the themes is different and it includes material published after Lowthorp's.
Entries seem to cover 1665 to the 1750s.

Smaller paper size is inserted in every opening of the large folio, at least two separate hands.

Custodial history

Domestic Archive

Reference number
MS/624
Earliest possible date
c.1770
Physical description
Paper, unbound folio. Exposed to soot, brittle paper and soot, minimise handling. 38 cm x 25 cm
Page extent
1 box, MS Box, Large

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Index to early volumes of 'Philosophical Transactions', c.1770, MS/624, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ms_624/index-to-early-volumes-of-philosophical-transactions, accessed on 03 December 2024

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    Dates: 1551 - 1951

    Science in the Making presents selected items from the 'Manuscripts General' series, notably astronomical observations, investigations of discrete topics, and indices and registers of papers read before the Royal Society.

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