<div dir="ltr">John,<div><br></div><div>I suspect that Peer-review as a whole formal process may be such a modern invention as claimed by Adam Mastroianni -- but I think that the idea that you would share your ideas with your correspondents is as old as any formal publication of science by such as Acta Eruditorum [1682...]</div><div>that Journal was due to in large part to Gottfried Leibniz who had extensive correspondence with many other erudite Renaissance Men of the era -- in a sense was a major "peer-reviewer" and information Gate-keeper</div><div>If you got on Leibnitz' regular letters list -- then your work was "peer-reviewed" </div><div><br></div><div>for example the article </div><div>Adam Adamandy Kochanski’s approximations of ´ π: reconstruction of the algorithm ∗<br>by Henryk Fuks<br></div><div><br></div><div>Begins with the following:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Adam Adamandy Kochanski SJ (1631–1700) was a Polish Jesuit mathematician, inventor, and polymath. <br>His interest were very diverse, including problems of geometry, mechanics, and astronomy, design and construction of mechanical clocks, perpetuum mobile and mechanical computers, as well as many other topics. <br>He published relatively little, and most of his mathematical works appeared in Acta Eruditorum between 1682 and 1696. <br>He left a reach correspondence, however, which currently consists of 163 surviving letters [1]. These letters include correspondence with Gottfried Leibniz, Athanasius Kircher SJ, Johannes Hevelius, Gottfried Kirch, <br>and many other luminaries of the 17-th century, giving a rich record of Kochanski’s activities and a vivid description of the intellectual life of the period.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ted</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 12:00 PM <<a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-6510987519674337026"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-6510987519674337026WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Considering how frequently we quote scientific papers (they are peer reviewed!) I thought that you would be interested in this paper I recently received.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Among other things, I was unaware that peer review is such a modern invention.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">John<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Michael Daly <<a href="mailto:michael_k_daly@hotmail.com" target="_blank">michael_k_daly@hotmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 7, 2023 9:55 AM<br><b>To:</b> John and Janice Rudy <<a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net" target="_blank">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> On peer reviews and papers<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review" target="_blank">https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Made me think of you and our shared view of the deliberate obtuseness of most papers. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Michael<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div>===============================================<br>
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