Cover of the first volume of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1665-1666, the Royal Society of London.
The Philosophical Transactions was established in 1665 as the first journal in the world exclusively devoted to science. It is still published by the Royal Society, which makes it also the world's longest-running scientific journal. The use of the word "Philosophical" in the title refers to "natural philosophy," which was the equivalent of what would now be generally called science.
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