Article ID: CBB533586065

Commercial Scientific Journals and Their Editors in Edinburgh, 1819–1832 (2020)

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This paper explores the editorial policies and practices of three scientific journal published in Edinburgh in the first half of the 19th century. The first of these was the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal (1819–1826), and its continuation as the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1826–1854). It was edited until 1824 by Robert Jameson, Edinburgh's professor of natural history, and David Brewster, who was a natural philosopher, scientific writer, and editor. Brewster left in 1824 to found his own journal, the Edinburgh Journal of Science (1824–1832). The third journal published in Edinburgh in this period was the Edinburgh Journal of Natural and Geographical Science (1829–1831), edited by Henry H. Cheek and William Ainsworth, two medical students at the University of Edinburgh. All three journals were direct competitors, being strikingly similar in form and content. As well as competing with Jameson's journal for readers and authors, Cheek and Ainsworth also used their journal to directly attack him in print. This paper sheds new light on the ways the editorship of these journals was used not only to consolidate and extend circles of patronage in early 19th-century science, but also to challenge existing centres of authority.

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Authors & Contributors
Taylor, Michael A.
Wendy McGlashan
Gielas, Anna
Haveman, Heather A.
Pierandrea Lo Nostro
Jenkins, Bill
Concepts
Publishers and publishing
Periodicals; serials
Science and society
Communication of scientific ideas
Popularization
Natural history
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Edinburgh
Great Britain
United States
India
Arctic regions
London (England)
Institutions
University of Edinburgh
Macmillan
Royal Society of London
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