The communications revolution in Italian science / Brendan Dooley.
Abstract:
'The ideas about scientific communication held by the Italian virtuosi went through two distinct phases, beginning with diffedence about publishing, stretching from Galileo's death in 1642 up until the 1660s, to enthusiasm about publishing, which became unconditional only around 1690s.'
History of science Vol. 33 (1995), p. 469-496