Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society. In its earliest days, it was a private venture of the Royal Society's secretary. It was establis
First volume title page
Henry Oldenburg, founding editor and publisher
Hans Sloane by Stephen Slaughter, 1736
In 1787, Caroline Herschel became the first woman published in the journal and the only one in the 18th century. Poster at Publishing 350 Exhibit, 2015.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch art, science and technology. A largely self-taught man in science, he is commonly known as "the F
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…authors include: Isaac Newton His first paper New Theory about Light and Colours, (1672) can be seen as the beginning of his public scientific career. Anton van Leeuwenhoek Leeuwenhoek's 1677 paper, the famous 'letter on the protozoa', gives the first detailed description of protists and bacteria living in a range of…
Portrait by Jan Verkolje, after 1680
Van Leeuwenhoek's birth house at Oosteinde, before it was demolished in 1926
The Geographer by Johannes Vermeer
A microscopic section of a one-year-old ash tree (Fraxinus) wood, drawing made by Van Leeuwenhoek