Acta Eruditorum
Language | Latin |
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Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Acta Eruditorum |
History | 1682–1782 |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Nova Acta Erud. |
Acta Eruditorum (from
German-speaking lands of Europe, published from 1682 to 1782.[1]
History
Acta Eruditorum was founded in 1682 in
Jakob Bernoulli, Humphry Ditton, Leonhard Euler, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Pierre-Simon Laplace and Jérôme Lalande, but also from humanists and philosophers such as Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, Stephan Bergler, Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff
.
After Otto Mencke's death in 1707, Acta Eruditorum was directed by his son, Johann Burckhardt Mencke, who died in 1732. The journal had changed its name by then to Nova Acta Eruditorum. Beginning in 1756 it was led by Karl Andreas Bel.
Role in the Calculus War
Although Mencke once exchanged letters and publications with
Philosophical Transactions did for Newton's. Mencke tried to tone down the dispute, but rebuttals from both sides were too forceful. "Where Mencke was powerless to call the tune, he did his utmost at least to set the tone," says H. Laeven in his description of the row.[4] This dispute also influenced Acta to express the feelings of national cohesion and defining German scholarship within the international field of influence.[4]
Notes
- ^ a b "MAA Euler Archive, information page for the journal Acta Eruditorum". Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
- Nordisk Familjebokhome encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (in Swedish)
- ^ Antognazza, Maria Rosa (2009). Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography. Cambridge. p. 239.
- ^ a b c Laeven, H. (1990). The Acta Eruditorum under the Editorship of Otto Mencke. The History of an International Learned Journal between 1682 and 1707. Translated by L. Richards. Amsterdam: APA-Holland University Press.
References
- H. Laeven, "The "Acta Eruditorum" under the Editorship of Otto Mencke. The History of an International Learned Journal between 1682 and 1707", trans. L. Richards, Amsterdam: APA-Holland University Press, 1990. Electronic version available through repository of University Library Nijmegen.
- A.H. Laeven and L.J.M. Laeven-Aretz, "The authors and reviewers of the Acta Eruditorum 1682-1735", Molenhoek, The Netherlands, 2014. [electronic publication]. Identifies and lists all authors and reviewers of individual contributions between 1682 and 1735. Available through repositories of University Library Leipzig and University Library Nijmegen.
- (Nova) Acta Eruditorum Archived 2019-09-07 at the Wayback Machine: table of contents, 1682-1776