Scarecrow Press Scientific and Technical Periodicals of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Guide

The scientific and technical periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries are a primary source for the study of one of the most interesting periods in our intellectual history. The author has collected and collated titles and information regarding them from a large number of sources to construct an alphabetical list of 1,851 periodicals, including those issued by the scientific and learned societies of this period in all the countries of Europe and America, from 1665, when Philosophical Transactions made its first appearance, to the end of the eighteenth century. Review ...an essential tool for historians of both science and technology and periodical publishing.--Library Association Record ...an important reference source...--AB Bookman's Weekly With this guide in hand, intellectual prospectors will be able to begin their searches.--Wilson Library Bulletin About the Author David A. Kronik (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is a Fellow of the Medical Library Association. His History of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, which has boon widely cited, was published by Scarecrow in 1962 and revised in 1976. He directed several major medical libraries from 1950 until his retirement in 1984 as Director of the University of Texas Health Sciences Library at San Antonio and was Scholar in Residence at the National Library of Medicine in 1989.