Article ID: CBB000930237

An Interrupted Story: French Translations from Philosophical Transactions in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2008)

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Although consistently recognized as desirable by both the Royal Society and the Académie des Sciences, translations of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society were only infrequently undertaken officially. More successful were some private attempts, which by the end of the eighteenth century had produced a virtually complete translation, albeit only of Lowthorp's abridgements.

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Authors & Contributors
Attie, Katherine Bootle
Avramov, Iordan
Boschiero, Luciano
Cavazza, Marta
Crosland, Maurice P.
Debru, Claude
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Acta Historica Leopoldina
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Journal of the History of Collections
Modern Philology
Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric
Publishers
University of Oklahoma
Brepols
Brill
Editions du CTHS
European Mathematical Society
Harper
Concepts
Societies; institutions; academies
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Cross-national interaction
Periodicals; serials
Natural philosophy
Translations
People
Newton, Isaac
Sprat, Thomas
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Banks, Joseph
Berthollet, Claude Louis
Blagden, Sir Charles
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
16th century
20th century
Early modern
Places
England
France
Great Britain
Italy
Netherlands
Scotland
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Académie des Sciences, Paris
Accademia del Cimento, Florence
Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Observatoire de Paris
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