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6 unusual facts about Acta Eruditorum


Acta Eruditorum

Since its inception many eminent scientists published there – apart from Leibniz, e.g., Jakob Bernoulli, Humphry Ditton, Leonhard Euler, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Pierre-Simon Laplace and Jérôme Lalande but also humanists and philosophers as Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, Stephan Bergler, Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff.

Brachistochrone curve

Johann Bernoulli posed the problem of the brachistochrone to the readers of Acta Eruditorum in June, 1696.

Charlotte-Catherine Patin

Relatio de litteris apologeticis, published in the contemporary German scientific review Acta Eruditorum (1691), where she responded to a critic of a work of her father on the Marcellin tomb that they had critiqued.

Johann Friedrich Gleditsch

In the following years he developed the already prestigious company into a prominent scientific publisher, famous mainly for the publication in Leipzig of the Acta Eruditorum.

Stephan Bergler

In addition to writing numerous articles for the Leipzig Acta Eruditorum, Bergler edited the editio princeps of the Byzantine historiographer Genesius (1733), and the letters of Alciphron (1715), which contained 75 letters published for the first time.

Tautochrone curve

Jakob Bernoulli solved the problem using calculus in a paper (Acta Eruditorum, 1690) that saw the first published use of the term integral.



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