JF Ptak Science Books Post 2144
The Annalen der Physik, begun in 1799 and still going strong, is one of the foremost scientific periodicals ever published. Over the years the debut of revolutionary and significant ideas have made their first appearances in the journal–Gauss, Clausius, von Helmholtz, Doppler, and many many others, perhaps most famously by the four spectacular papers in Einstein’s annus mirablis of 1905. The Annalen also famously re-published significant contributions by foreign scientists, their work seen in German for the first time in these pages. For many without French or English or Italian, it was the first time many German scientists read of Daguerre, Dalton, Cavendish, Volta, and so on–which was a big deal. [See this link for a collection of useful user’s guides to the Annalen that are published elsewhere on this site.]