Editing History of science (section)

====Scientific societies and journals====
A critical innovation was the creation of permanent scientific societies and their scholarly journals, which dramatically sped the diffusion of new ideas. Typical was the founding of the [[Royal Society]] in London in 1660 and its journal in 1665 the [[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society|Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society]], the first scientific journal in English.<ref>Meyrick H. Carré, "The Formation of the Royal Society" ''History Today'' (Aug 1960) 10#8 pp 564–571.</ref> 1665 also saw the first journal in French, the [[Journal des sçavans|Journal des ''sçavans'']]. Science drawing on the works{{sfnp|Heilbron|2003|p=741}} of [[Isaac Newton|Newton]], [[Descartes]], [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], science was on a path to modern [[mathematics]], [[physics]] and [[technology]] by the time of the generation of [[Benjamin Franklin]] (1706–1790), [[Leonhard Euler]] (1707–1783), [[Mikhail Lomonosov]] (1711–1765) and [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (1717–1783). [[Denis Diderot]]'s ''[[Encyclopédie]]'', published between 1751 and 1772 brought this new understanding to a wider audience. The impact of this process was not limited to science and technology, but affected [[history of philosophy|philosophy]] ([[Immanuel Kant]], [[David Hume]]), [[history of religion|religion]] (the increasingly significant impact of [[Relationship between religion and science|science upon religion]]), and society and politics in general ([[Adam Smith]], [[Voltaire]]).