Early Scientific Journals
1771–1823. Journal de Physique, Paris; title changed several times.
1787–. Botanical Magazine. (For a time known as Curtis’s Journal).
1789–1816. Annales de Chimie, Paris. Continued from 1817 on as the Annales de Chimie et de Physique.
1790. Journal der Physik, Halle (by Gren); from 1799 on became the Annalen der Physik (und Chemie), Halle, Leipzig. The title has been somewhat changed from time to time though publication has been continuous. Often referred to by the name of the editor-in-chief, as Gren, Gilbert, Poggendorff, Wiedemann, etc.
1795–1815. Journal des Mines, Paris, continued from 1816 as the Annales des Mines.
1796–1815. Bibliothèque Britannique, Geneva. From 1816–1840, Bibliothèque Universelle, etc. 1846–1857, Archives des Sci. phys. nat. Since 1858 generally known as the Bibliothèque Universelle.
1797. Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts (Nicholson’s Journal) London; united in 1814 with the Philosophical Magazine (Tilloch’s Journal).
1798–. The Philosophical Magazine (originally by Tilloch). This absorbed Nicholson’s Journal (above) in 1814; also the Annals of Philosophy (Thomson, Phillips) in 1827 and Brewsters’ Edinburgh Journal of Science in 1832.
1798–1803. Allgemeines Journal der Chemie (Scherer’s Journal). 1803–1806; continued as Neues Allg. J. etc. (Gehlen’s Journal). Later title repeatedly changed and finally (1834 et seq.) Journal für praktische Chemie.
1816–18. Journal of Science and the Arts, London. 181930, Quarterly J. etc. 1830–31, Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
1818. American Journal of Science and Arts until 1880, when “the Arts” was dropped, New Haven, Conn. First Series, 1–50, 1818–1845; Second Series, 1–50, 1846–1870; Third Series, 1–50, 1871–1895; Fourth Series, 1–45, 1896–June, 1918.
1818. Flora, or Allgemeine botanische Zeitung. Regensburg, Munich.
1820–1867. London Journal of Arts and Sciences (after 1855, Newton’s Journal).
1824–. Annales des sciences naturelles. Paris.
1826–. Linnæa, Berlin, Halle; from 1882 united with Jahrb. d. K. botan. Gartens.
1828–1840. Magazine of Natural History, London; united 1838 with the Annals of Natural History, and known since 1841 as the Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
1828–. Journal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, from 1826; earlier (1825) the American Mechanics Magazine.
1832–. Annalen der Chemie (und Pharmacie) often known as Liebig’s Annalen. Leipzig, Lemgo.