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A SMALL committee, presided over by Prof. B. Nemeč, met at Prague on December 3 and 4 to study, on behalf of the International Organisation for Intellectual Co-operation, the possibility of publishing old scientific works. This question had been raised by Prof. Nemeč, on behalf of the Czechoslovak Research Council, and had been adopted as part of the plan of scientific work of the International Organization for Intellectual Co-operation, by the executive committee of the International Council of Scientific Unions, acting as a committee of scientific advisers. The committee at Prague unanimously agreed that it would be desirable to publish a number of manuscripts or works on the exact and natural sciences, printed copies of which are extremely rare or almost inaccessible. A series of this kind would show the common origins of modern scientific culture and would be of great value to all savants interested in the historical development of the sciences. Considering the strictly international character of the undertaking, the committee felt that it should be entrusted to the International Organisation for Intellectual Co-operation. Further, the series should not be confined to one branch of science alone and it should embrace all the periods in the development of science since the Middle Ages.
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Publication of Old Scientific Works. Nature 141, 194 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141194a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141194a0