







Since 1845, Scientific American has chronicled ideas and inventions that have changed the world. On the following pages, we present highlights from our archives on evolution, the cosmos, the brain and other topics, including a few written for us by our 155 Nobel Prize–winning authors
This article was originally published with the title "170 Years of Scientific American" in Scientific American 313, 6, 42-53 (December 2015)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1215-42
For more about our 170-year history, go to ScientificAmerican.com/report/celebrating-170-years-of-scientific-american1