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19: 170:. he result of deliberations has been that it would certainly be best that we should unite, and that the joint product of our exertions and our correspondence should be consolidated in one periodical work. The Philosophical Journal will henceforth be discontinued; and The Philosophical Magazine will be conducted by William Nicholson and Alexander Tilloch, in the same manner as it has always been carried on." 461: 177:
might be enabled to "preserve their Series without a chasm." However, despite their intention to continue this scheme of two-fold numeration, they abandoned it at the end of this trial period in June 1814, because of the perceived "confusion and risque of many errors" when referring to future
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Nicholson's journal would accept short papers, written by new or anonymous authors, and decide whether to publish them relatively quickly. These attributes distinguished the new journal from the established scientific journal
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By one account, William Nicholson started the journal and made all editorial decisions in a "pioneering and uncertain attempt" to make a living from publishing it. Revenues came only from subscriptions. Tilloch's
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For the duration of Volume 43 (January to June 1814) the joint publishers of the new merged journal provided duplicate title-pages for each number, ostensibly so that subscribers to
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was more successful as a popular science journal business than Nicholson's journal, according to one source, and another such journal appeared in 1813 (
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was announced in 1803. The author chose Nicholson's journal in order to remain anonymous at first, and later revealed himself to be
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split water into hydrogen and oxygen for the first time in 1800 and immediately published their results in the journal. They used
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began it in 1797 and was the editor until it merged with another journal in January 1814.
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was commenced by Mr. Nicholson, and sixteen since the appearance of the first number of
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volumes; from July 1814 a single numeration was used, following the numbering of
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Complete journal issues have been scanned and are available online at the
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The "Advertisement", dated 31 December 1813, at the start of Volume 42 of
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https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/164181#page/5/mode/1up
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Lilley, Samuel. 1948. "Nicholson's Journal" (1797–1813)
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A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts
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Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts
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The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
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William Nicholson
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Alexander Tilloch
Philosophical Magazine
Anthony Carlisle
Volta's pile
electrolysis
palladium
William Hyde Wollaston
aerodynamic
gliders
heavier-than-air
fixed-wing
flying machines
George Cayley
Annals of Philosophy
Biodiversity Heritage Library
archive.org
Natural History Museum Library, London
New York Public Library
google books
"'We want no authors': William Nicholson and the contested role of the scientific journal in Britain, 1797–1813"
doi
10.1017/s0007087413000964
S2CID
144733609
"Nicholson, William (1753–1815)"
Dictionary of National Biography

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