Prospectus of a new periodical work, intitled The philosophical magazine.

Date:
[1798]
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Credit: Prospectus of a new periodical work, intitled The philosophical magazine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / PROSPECTUS OF A 4 NEW PERIODICAL WORK, INTITLED THE (PHILO SO PHI CA L MA GA ZINE. yZzc aranearum fane textus ideo melior, quia ex fe fila gignunt. Nec softer vilior, qui* «x alienis libamus ut apes. Just. Lips. Monit. Polit. lib. i. cap. 1. TO THE PUBLIC. IS^OTWITHSTANDING the prefent enlarged date of Science, the Public in general have very little opportunity of being early acquainted with the improvements which are daily made in the different branches of Human Knowledge. A want of this kind, in a country like Great Britain, where the Arts and Manufactures, fo much dependent on thefe improvements, are be¬ come of the higheft importance to the National Welfare, cannot be a matter j of indifference. To fupply this want, therefore, the prefent Work is under¬ taken : and the Conductors flatter themfelves that, though fome Publications of a fimilar kind are already in exigence, there will {till be fufficient rooiyi for their labours ; and that the Plan which they have adopted, if not entirely new, will at lead have the merit of being more extenfive than any ever yet propofed. As it would be fuperfluous to enlarge on the utility of fuch an undertaking, they will without further apology give the following Outlines of their Plan, which they fubmit to the consideration of the Public in gene¬ ral, and in particular pf thofe who ape fond of cultivating the Philofophi- cal Sciences.-- AS the improvements made in the Arts and Sciences on the Continent are, for the moil part, configned in the firlt inftance to the Tran factions of Academies, Works too dear to be purchafed by Readers in general, and written, befides, in languages with which few are acquainted, the Conductors have opened a correfpondence with the different countries of Europe, by which they will be enabled to obtain thefe Works as foon as they are pub- lifhed; and they intend to feleffc and tranflate from them fuch Papers as they think will afford gratification to the Public, or be ufeful to the Arts