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The British Royal Society has opened the doors on their brand new free online archive of scientific papers, dating back as far as the late 1600’s. El Reg picked up the story last week when it launched and there’s more information available in the Royal Society’s newspost. Like the BBC’s digital archive, this is a huge step forward in terms developing a ’sum of total human knowledge’ type repository.

I’ve explored the archive a little bit and it is quite fun if you’re into geeky science things. I’m totally worried about it becoming a giant timesink though, since I get lost in things like this easily. My RPG collection speaks embarrassingly large volumes on that subject.

Two clippings of articles that were of particular interest to me were William Henry Fox Talbot’s first accounts of the process of photography. You can read them yourself here and here. Dig around through the annals of scientific history a bit and see what you can find. Send me interesting articles so I have more fodder for my Blog-O-Matic cannon!