📅 6 March 1665
Henry Oldenburg launched a periodical that created a regular printed channel for reports in mathematics and natural philosophy.
📅 6 March 1665
Serial publication helped establish priority, criticism and cumulative discussion among dispersed correspondents.
📅 6 March 1665
Problems, observations, instruments and calculations could circulate more rapidly than through large books alone.
📅 6 March 1665
Its global reports often depended on colonial travel and unequal access; readers should distinguish wide geographic reach from equal participation.
