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Johann Rist

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publication of first magazine

  • Gutenberg Bible
    In history of publishing: Beginnings in the 17th century

    …“Edifying Monthly Discussions”), started by Johann Rist, a theologian and poet of Hamburg. Soon after there appeared a group of learned periodicals: the Journal des Sçavans (later Journal des Savants; 1665), started in France by the author Denis de Sallo; the Philosophical Transactions (1665) of the Royal Society in England;…

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