clipped from www.redorbit.com Royal Society Publishes Rare Scientific Studies Online The Royal Society said on Monday that historic manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and other groundbreaking scientists would be published online for the first time. The interactive site, which is being called “Trailblazing,” contains 60 articles chosen from among the 60,000 that have appeared in the Royal Society's journals. A gruesome account of a 17th-century blood transfusion will be published on the site, as well as Newton’s theory on light and colors in the 1600s -- that continues to provide the basis for theoretical physics. Also appearing on the site will be a paper by Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States, which detailed his experiment to fly his kite in a storm to prove that lightning is electricity rather than a supernatural force. clipped from trailblazing.royalsociety.org Trailblazing is a user-friendly, ‘explore-at-your-own-pace’, virtual journey through science.