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The first edition of the first scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions (Royal Society). It was in March 1665 that Henry Oldenburg, the secretary of the Royal Society of London, launched the first English scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions. His transactions reported on technical news from abroad, as well as articles presented at the Royal Society and experiments performed there--or in the words on the title page, 'Giving some accompt (sic) of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious in many considerable parts of the world.' The initial transactions, issued monthly, were about 20 pages long and printed in runs of 1,200 copies. The first issue had contributions from, among others, the eminent scientist and Royal Society Fellow Robert Hooke, an astronomer, an 'inquisitive Physician,' and an 'understanding and hardy Seaman.' This modest yet historic first issue concluded with an obituary for the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat. The author index under Oldenburg's stewardship (1665-1677) reads like a who's who of seventeenth-century scientists in England and Europe: Newton, Boyle, Hooke, Wren, Leeuwenhoek, Huygens, Hevelius, Leibnitz, Cassini, and Halley.