From Keeping Nature’s Secrets to the Institutionalization of Open Science
From P2P Foundation
Article: Patronage, Reputation, and Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution: From Keeping ‘Nature’s Secrets’ to the Institutionalization of ‘Open Science’ Export. by: Paul A. David. SIEPR Policy paper No. 03-039 (2004)
URL = http://www-siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/03-39.html [1]
Description
"About the history of open science, seen here as a tendency to publish results
- scientists had to be supported by sponsors and patrons
- support of scientists for "ornamental" purposes
- hence the need for the new results to be known
(16th-17th cantury)"
