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See also: Scientific writing § History

Scientific literature took place in the form of letters, books, and other writings. They were published and produced by individual people hoping to be shared with others for research purposes. Scientific writing in English came out in the 14th century and had continued to try to make scientific literature a lot better and easier by developing an industry that is for non-native english speaking authors. Scientific literature became popular especially for medical purposes. Such as when people would record certain researches that helped people further along life. Such as finding ways to cure certain illnesses and those people who wrote the article or book so that others can use what others researched in hopes of being able to add to that research to make the discovery better. Today Scientific literature has expanded science by a lot it has also created challenges. Mainly the writing are published for peer reviewed journal articles that was started in the mid 1600s. Meaning at least two scientists with the same expertise in the same area of science comment on the article and decide whether they should publish it or not. That later is for the public and other scientists or whoever wants to read about it if they want knowledge on the certain topic. A lot of the research was short summaries of other journals or books so that people had the latest versions of the knowledge instead of research that was from a long time ago. Everything that is published must be written down and recorded so that if others want to read or add to the research they can. They include citations to any number of earlier studies that other work can be built on and later cited as well.

The first recorded editorial pre-publication peer-review occurred in 1665 by the founding editor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg.[12][13]

Technical and scientific books were a specialty of David Van Nostrand, and his Engineering Magazine re-published contemporary scientific articles.