History of Scholarly Societies:
Ornstein on 17th Century Scientific Societies

Ornstein on 17th Century Scientific Societies
Ornstein, Martha. Rôle of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century. University of Chicago, 1928 and 1938. Reprint edition: Archon Books, Hamden & London: 1963. xviii, 308 p.
A virtually unchanged reprint of Ornstein's 1913 doctoral dissertation, this is the classic study of the beginnings of scientific societies in Western Europe.
Contents
Chapter	Title	Pages
I	General Scientific Advance in the Seventeenth Century	3 - 20
II	Rôle of Individual Scientists	21 - 69
III	Italian Scientific Societies The Accademia dei Lincei The Accademia del Cimento	73 - 90
IV	The Royal Society	91 - 138
V	The Académie des Sciences	139 - 164
VI	German Scientific Societies Societas Ereunetica The Collegium Naturae Curiosum [the more usual word is Curiosorum] The Collegium Curiosum sive Experimentale Leibniz and the Berlin Academy	165 - 197
VII	The Scientific Journals	198 - 209
VIII	Science in the Universities	213 - 256