Authority Cited: Phil. Trans.
Author name and dates: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
BKG Bio-tweet: First science journal; founded 1665; discussed by SJ with George III; SJ quotes under lough
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Phil. Trans. cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Phil. Trans. cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. See the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society article: 31 July 1699, Volume 21 Issue 254, p.230, at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstl.1699.0042. See also "Dr. Johnson And The Royal Society," A. D. Atkinson, 01 April 1953 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.1953.0007 which quotes SJ from the 1787 and 1739 Gentleman's Magazine: " . . . how few will read or purchase the forty-four large volumes of the Transactions of the Royal Society, which, in abridgement, are generally read, to the great improvement of philosophy."]
Author name and dates: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
BKG Bio-tweet: First science journal; founded 1665; discussed by SJ with George III; SJ quotes under lough
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Phil. Trans. cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Phil. Trans. cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. See the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society article: 31 July 1699, Volume 21 Issue 254, p.230, at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstl.1699.0042. See also "Dr. Johnson And The Royal Society," A. D. Atkinson, 01 April 1953 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.1953.0007 which quotes SJ from the 1787 and 1739 Gentleman's Magazine: " . . . how few will read or purchase the forty-four large volumes of the Transactions of the Royal Society, which, in abridgement, are generally read, to the great improvement of philosophy."]
- Phil. Trans. (Letter Wrote by Mr. James Fraser, Minister of Kirkhil, near Invernes, to Ja. Wallace at Edinburgh, Concerning the Lake Ness, etc. Phil. Trans. January 1, 1699); lough (Dict.: "Lough Ness never freezes." Text: ". . . called Loch Ness. . . . The lake never freezes." See image below.)
