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One of my old professors (and the author of "Books Before Print") has a new post on the oldest surviving printed advertisement from Britain https://medievalbooks.nl/2019/01/24/the-oldest-surviving-printed-advertisement-in-english-london-1477/ #codicology #bookHistory #incunabula #caxton

@jorge Some people seem to want peer review to define what is and is not scientific, but reviewers are fallible, distracted human beings and human beings disagree about what is good science.

@jorge and I would sure hope that anyone with a PhD understands that just because some journal somewhere accepted a paper does not mean that it is a sound argument according to the rules of the reader's discipline! There are whole fields where 'publishing' consists of uploading a paper onto a preprint server and the world has not come to an end.