Acta Eruditorum

The Acta Eruditorum , are a monthly Scientific magazine German E published of 1682 with 1782 with Leipzig by the scientist Otto Mencke on the initiative of Leibniz.

Created with the imitation of the Newspaper of the scientists , the Acta Eruditorum are the first Scientific magazine in the erudite history of Germany.

Written in Latin, the Acta Eruditorum included/understood summaries of new writings, criticisms, synopses, short tests and notes, primarily in the field of the natural science and mathematics, but also in the field of theology and philosophy. The collaboration of known scientists of the time ensured the quality of the new review and, so encouraged the development of the critical spirit in Germany.

History

With died of Otto Mencke, the Acta were taken again by his/her son, Johann Burckhardt Mencke until its death in 1732, itself replaced by his/her own son Friedrich Otto Mencke, date on which the review changed name to become the Nova Acta Eruditorum . The disorders of the War Seven Year old and the negligence of the writer-in-chief of the time, Karol Andrej Bel, which had taken again the drafting in 1754, caused serious delays in the monthly publication of the volumes, so much so that the edition of the last part of the year 1776 is appeared only in 1782.

In 1712, Friedrich Otto founded the during German-speaking one Acta Eruditorum , the Deutsche Acta Eruditorum , which were devoted more particularly to the historical writings and the polemics of the moment.

Contributors

As of its beginnings, many eminent scientists, such as Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Jacob Bernoulli, Humphry Ditton, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Denis Papin, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Jerome Lalande, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, John Flamsteed, Jacob Hermann, Christiaan Huygens or but also of the philosophers and humanistic like Christian Thomasius, Christian Wolf, Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, Christian Wagner or Stephan Bergler published in the Acta .

It is in the October issue of 1684 of the Acta that Leibniz published its Nova Methodus pro maximis and minimis, itemque tangentibus, and singulare pro illis calculi genus ; in addition to the final solution of the problem of the tangents, Leibniz inaugurated the Integral calculus there by the solution of the problem of Beaune: To find a curve whose subtangent is constant .

References

Augustinus Hubertus Laeven, The “Acta Eruditorum” under the editorship off Otto Mencke (1644-1707). The history off international year learned newspaper between 1682 and 1707 , Amsterdam and Maarssen, APA-Holland University Close, 1990 ISBN 9030212969

Sources

Maximilien Marie, History of mathematical and physical sciences , T. VI , Paris, Gauthier-Villard, 1885

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