Royal Society archive free for two months, 1665-date

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Oh, free databases are always good. Ones with good search facilities are
even better.

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> So, I was wrong.  A free database is NOT always a good thing.  :)
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> Sam Clements
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> > On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> >> I'm not sure their search engine works very well.  I did a
> search on
> >> what should have been the entire database for "asteroid", and the
> >> earliest returned citation was 1977 for the astronomical
> sense (1857
> >> for the starfish sense), but I was able to find (by browsing) an
> >> article from 1807 with the word.
> >
> > When one searches the same material on JSTOR, one gets a
> first use of
> > 1802.
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> > Fred
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