History timeline for Nature
Nature Publishing Group has published an expanding, illustrated online timeline of the history of the company and its journals. Click on the arrow to expand each year's entry. The first segment, The first 100 years (1869 - 1969), celebrates the journal Nature : "What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth." J.J. SYLVESTER, MATHEMATICIAN .
The second two segments are called Branching out (1970 - 1999) and NPG in the new millennium (2000 - 2007). All three timelines detail the fascinating progression of Nature, Macmillans and Nature Publishing Group: new editors, the origin of peer review, new journal launches, office openings, and more recently NPG's entry into realm of Web 2.0. All against a diverse selection of the science we have published since Nature's first issue in 1869.
