Acta Eruditorum (Latin for "reports/acts of the scholars") was the first
scientific journalIn academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...
of
the German landsGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
, published from 1682 to 1782.
It was founded in 1682 in
LeipzigLeipzig is, with a population of 515,459, the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.-Origins:Leipzig's name is derived from the Slavic word Lipsk, which means "settlement where the lime trees stand"....
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Otto MenckeOtto Mencke was a 17th-century German philosopher and scientist. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1666 with a thesis entitled: Ex Theologia naturali — De Absoluta Dei Simplicitate, Micropolitiam, id est Rempublicam In Microcosmo Conspicuam.He is notable as being the...
and patterned after the French
Journal des savants and Italian
Giornale de'letterati.
Acta Eruditorum was a monthly edited in Latin language and contained excerpts from new writings, reviews, small essays and notes.
Acta Eruditorum (Latin for "reports/acts of the scholars") was the first
scientific journalIn academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...
of
the German landsGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
, published from 1682 to 1782.
It was founded in 1682 in
LeipzigLeipzig is, with a population of 515,459, the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.-Origins:Leipzig's name is derived from the Slavic word Lipsk, which means "settlement where the lime trees stand"....
by
Otto MenckeOtto Mencke was a 17th-century German philosopher and scientist. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1666 with a thesis entitled: Ex Theologia naturali — De Absoluta Dei Simplicitate, Micropolitiam, id est Rempublicam In Microcosmo Conspicuam.He is notable as being the...
and patterned after the French
Journal des savants and Italian
Giornale de'letterati.
Acta Eruditorum was a monthly edited in Latin language and contained excerpts from new writings, reviews, small essays and notes. Most of them were devoted to the natural sciences and mathematics. Since its inception many eminent scientists published there –
Isaac NewtonSir Isaac Newton FRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number of scholars and the general public as one of the most influential men in history...
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Gottfried LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German philosopher, polymath and mathematician who wrote primarily in Latin and French....
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Jakob BernoulliJacob Bernoulli was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.Following his father's wish, Jacob studied theology and entered the ministry...
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Humphry DittonHumphry Ditton , was an English mathematician.Ditton was born at Salisbury. He studied theology, and was for some years a dissenting minister at Tonbridge, but on the death of his father he devoted himself to the congenial study of mathematics. Through the influence of Sir Isaac Newton he was...
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Ehrenfried Walther von TschirnhausEhrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus was a German mathematician, physicist, physician and philosopher. He is the inventor of the European porcelain, an invention that for a long time had been assigned to Johann Friedrich Böttger...
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Pierre-Simon LaplacePierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer whose work was pivotal to the development of mathematical astronomy and statistics. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste...
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Jérôme LalandeJoseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande was a French astronomer and writer.-Biography:Lalande was born at Bourg-en-Bresse...
but also humanists and philosophers as
Veit Ludwig von SeckendorffVeit Ludwig von Seckendorf , German statesman and scholar, was a member of a German noble family, which took its name from the village of Seckendorf between Nuremberg and Langenzenn....
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Stephan BerglerStephan Bergler was a Transylvanian Saxon classical scholar and antiquarian.-Biography:Born in Kronstadt , he studied at the University of Leipzig, he went to Amsterdam, where he edited the works of Homer and the Onomasticon of Julius Pollux...
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Christian ThomasiusChristian Thomasius , was a German jurist and philosopher.-Biography:He was born at Leipzig and was educated by his father, Jakob Thomasius , at that time head master of Thomasschule zu Leipzig...
and
Christian WolffChristian Wolff may refer to:* Christian Wolff , German philosopher and mathematician* Christian Wolff , American composer of experimental classical music* Christian Wolff , German actor-See also:...
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Otto MenckeOtto Mencke was a 17th-century German philosopher and scientist. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1666 with a thesis entitled: Ex Theologia naturali — De Absoluta Dei Simplicitate, Micropolitiam, id est Rempublicam In Microcosmo Conspicuam.He is notable as being the...
's death
Acta Eruditorum were directed by his son, Johann Burckhardt Mencke, who died in 1732. The magazine change its name by then and was called
Nova Acta Eruditorum. Since 1754 it was led by Karl Andreas Bel.