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Authorship and Authority in the Scientific Periodicals of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The methods of establishing the credibility of the author as witness are explored in the periodical literature of science of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The ambivalence of the early scientific societies and journal editors toward this subject can be explained on the basis of the need to maintain freedom of discourse because, although science is sustained by consensus, it also advances through its subversion. We can see in this early period of modern science the beginnings of the mechanisms that the scientific community has tried to develop to establish a balance between the two.