Journal des sçavans
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| Language | French |
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| Publication details | |
| History | 1665–1792, 1797, 1816–present |
| Frequency | Annual |
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| ISO 4 | J. Sçavans |
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| ISSN | 1775-383X |
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TheJournal des sçavans(later renamedJournal des savansand thenJournal des savants,lit. 'Journal of the Learned'), established byDenis de Sallo,is the earliestacademic journalpublished in Europe. It is thought to be the earliest published scientific journal. It currently focuses on European history and premodern literature.
History
[edit]The first issue appeared as a twelve-pagequartopamphlet[1]on Monday, 5 January 1665.[2]This was shortly before the first appearance of thePhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society,on 6 March 1665.[3]The 18th-century French physician andencyclopédisteLouis-Anne La Virotte(1725–1759) was introduced to the journal through the protection of chancellorHenri François d'Aguesseau.Its content originally included obituaries of famous men, church history, scientific findings, and legal reports.[4][5][6]Natural philosophywas part of its original scope. It is thought to be the first published scientific journal.[6]
The journal ceased publication in 1792, during theFrench Revolution,and, although it very briefly reappeared in 1797 under the updated titleJournal des savants,it did not re-commence regular publication until 1816. From then on, theJournal des savantswas published by theNational Imprimeryunder the patronage of theInstitut de France.From 1908 to 2020, it was published under the patronage of theAcadémie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.In 2021, the Belgian companyPeeterstook over publication. It continues to be a leading academic journal in Frenchhumanitiesscholarship.
Landmark articles
[edit]Ole Rømer'sdeterminationof thespeed of lightwas published in the journal in 1676, which established that light did not propagate instantly. It came to about 26% slower than the actual value.[7]
In 1684 the journal publishedFrançois Bernier's racial theories.[8]In 1692,Leibnizpublished his first explication ofMonadologyin the journal.[9]In 1762 it carriedAbraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron's landmark study ofZoroastrianism.[citation needed]A self-assured misreading ofJapanesesources in an 1817 article byJean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat[10]led to the name of theBonin Islands.[11]
References
[edit]- ^Brown, 1972, p. 368
- ^Hallam, 1842, p. 406.
- ^Partridge, Linda (6 March 2015)."Celebrating 350 years of Philosophical Transactions: life sciences papers".Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.370(1666): 1.doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0380.PMC4360128.PMID25750243.
- ^Benos, Dale J.; Bashari, Edlira; Chaves, Jose M.; Gaggar, Amit; Kapoor, Niren; LaFrance, Martin; Mans, Robert; Mayhew, David; McGowan, Sara; Polter, Abigail; Qadri, Yawar (1 June 2007)."The ups and downs of peer review".Advances in Physiology Education.31(2): 145–152.doi:10.1152/advan.00104.2006.ISSN1043-4046.PMID17562902.
- ^Kronick, David A. (9 March 1990)."Peer Review in 18th-Century Scientific Journalism".JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association.263(10): 1321–1322.doi:10.1001/jama.1990.03440100021002.ISSN0098-7484.PMID2406469.
- ^ab"The Amsterdam printing of the Journal des sçavans".Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution. July 2000. Archived fromthe originalon 11 January 2007.
- ^Rømer, O(1676)."Démonstration touchant le mouvement de la lumière trouvé par M. Römer de l'Academie Royale des Sciences"(PDF).Journal des sçavans(in French): 223–36.Translated as"A Demonstration concerning the Motion of Light".Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.12(136): 893–94. 1677.Bibcode:1677RSPT...12..893..doi:10.1098/rstl.1677.0024.Archived fromthe originalon 29 July 2007.
- ^François Bernier,"A New Division of the Earth"fromJournal des Scavans,April 24, 1684. Translated by T. Bendyshe in Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London, vol. 1, 1863–64, pp. 360–64.
- ^R.A. Watson,The Downfall of Cartesianism 1673–1712(The Hague: Nijhoff, 1966), p.15, citing "Extrait d'une lettre de Monsr. de Leibniz,"Journal des sçavans20 (2 June 1692), 365-269.
- ^Abel-Rémusat, Jean-Pierre (July 1817), "Description d'un Groupe d'Îles Peu Connues [Description of a Little Known Group of Islands]",Journal des Savans[Journal of the Learnèd](in French), Paris:Institut de France,pp. 387–396.
- ^Kublin, Hyman (March 1953),"The Discovery of the Bonin Islands: A Reexamination"(PDF),Annals of the Association of American Geographers,vol. 43, Milton Park: Taylor & Francis, pp. 27–46,JSTOR2561081.
Further reading
[edit]- Brown, Harcourt (1972). "History and the Learned Journal".Journal of the History of Ideas.33(3): 365–378.doi:10.2307/2709041.JSTOR2709041.PMID11609708.
- Hallam, Henry (1842).Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries.Harper & Brothers.
- James, Ioan(2004).Remarkable Physicists: From Galileo to Yukawa.Cambridge University Press.ISBN0-521-01706-8.
- Kilgour, Frederick G. (1998).The Evolution of the Book.Oxford University Press.ISBN0-19-511859-6.
External links
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- Journal des Savantscurrent publisher(issues from 2023–present)
- Journal des Savantsprevious publisher(issues from 2016–2020)
- Open access issues ofJournal des Savants(1909–2016)
- OriginalJournal des sçavansatGallica
