- Acta Eruditorum
"Acta Eruditorum" (Latin for "reports, acts of the scholars") was the first
scientific journal of the German lands, published from1682 to1782 . [ [http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~euler/publications/journals/ActaEruditorum.html Acta Eruditorum ] ]It was founded in
1682 inLeipzig byOtto Mencke and patterned after the French "Journal des savants " and Italian "Giornale de'letterati". "Acta Eruditorum" was a monthly edited inLatin language and contained excerpts from new writings, reviews, small essays and notes. Most of them were devoted to thenatural sciences and mathematics. Since its inception manyeminent scientists published there –Isaac Newton ,Gottfried Leibniz ,Jakob Bernoulli ,Humphry Ditton ,Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus ,Pierre-Simon Laplace andJérôme Lalande but also humanists and philosophers asVeit Ludwig von Seckendorff ,Stephan Bergler ,Christian Thomasius andChristian Wolff .After
Otto Mencke 's death "Acta Eruditorum" were directed by his son, Johann Burckhardt Mencke, who died in1732 . The magazine change its name by then and was called "Nova Acta Eruditorum". Since1754 it was led byKarl Andreas Bel .References
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