Acta eruditorum

Author:
Mencke, O. (ed.)
Journal:
1 - 50
Publisher:
Leipzig: J. Grossium & J. F. Gleditschium
Year:
1682 - 1731

The Acta Eruditorum was a Latin-language monthly first published in Leipzig in 1682 to provide announcements, abstracts, and excerpts from notable publications, especially new works, reviews, and small essays. The articles were from both German and foreign authors on everything from theology and church history to physics and medicine as well as philosophy and geography.

It was founded and edited by Otto Mencke (image on right; click to enlarge). In the 1690's, the Acta became the champion of Leibniz in the dispute over who deserved credit for developing the calculus. His opponent, Newton, was championed by the Royal Society and Philosophical Transactions.

In Volume 8, the section on Leeuwenhoek had the same title as the volume with Letters 53 through 60 that Boutesteyn published in Leiden in the same year, 1689: Continuatio Epistolarum, Datarum Ad longe Celeberrimam Regiam Societatem Londinensem ab Antonio de Leeuwenhoek, Eiusdem Societas Membro. The editors boiled the eight letters on 124 pages down to three pages identifying and briefly describing Leeuwenhoek's observations shown in 10 of the 76 figures that had accompanied the letters in Continuatio Epistolarum. As with the 26 (out of 40) figures in the earlier volumes, these 10 were engraved on new plates with less detail and the same orientation as in the Continuatio Epistolarum. Were they drawn in a mirror? They were also re-numbered, consecutively, to match the numbers in the description.

The first two were addressed to Robert Hooke, the third to Francis Aston, and the rest of the Royal Society's members in general.

Letter date AB/CL # AvL # Acta Eruditorum
1680年11月12日 65 33 Vol. 1, 1682 pp. 321-327, 7 of 8 figs
1681年11月04日 66 34 Vol. 2, 1682 pp. 511-512, all 4 figs
1683年12月28日 79 40 Vol. 5, 1686 pp. 4-8, 9 of 11 figs
1685年01月05日 82 43 Vol. 4, 1685 pp. 534, 2 of 11 figs
1685年03月30日 84 45 Vol. 5 pp. 474-478, 4 of 6 figs
1687年04月04日 98 53 Vol. 8, 1689 pp. 171-172 - no figs
1687年05月09日 99 54 Vol. 8 p. 172. - no figs
1687年06月13日 100 55 Vol. 8 p. 172. - no figs
1687年07月11日 101 56 Vol. 8 p. 172 - no figs
1687年08月06日 102 57 Vol. 8 pp. 172-173, 8 of 10 figs
1687年09月09日 103 58 Vol. 8 pp. 172-173 - no figs
1687年10月17日 104 59 Vol. 8 p. 174, 2 of 11 figs
1687年11月28日 105 60 Vol. 8 p. 174 - no figs
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What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter L-111 of 1680年11月12日 to Robert Hooke about blood globules, lees of wine, globules in rain water, milk vessels, reproduction, little animals in the male seed of animals, and their incomprehensible smallness
Wrote Letter L-114 of 1681年11月04日 to Robert Hooke about hog bristles, shedding hair, blackheads; living little animals in excrement, horse urine, clay, and gout
Wrote Letter L-144 of 1683年12月28日 to Francis Aston about human skin and its diseases, the intestines, the effects of vinegar, the intestinal wall and peristalsis, and an experiment to demonstrate the adsorption of food nutrients in the intestines.
Wrote Letter L-152 of 1685年01月05日 to Members of the Royal Society about salts in wine and vinegar and in the stomach, the eye, the need for food and water, Descartes's theory on smallest water particles, and a theory of taste - salt, sour and sweet
Wrote Letter L-157 of 1685年03月30日 to Members of the Royal Society about sperm, the uterus of a bitch, sheep embryos, ovaries in young animals and apples, and his claims that sperm are the life-carriers and that there are male and female sperm
Wrote Letter L-186 of 1687年04月04日 to the members of the Royal Society about the structure of the teeth of elephants, pigs, humans, oxen, and horses and about toothache
Wrote Letter L-187 of 1687年05月09日 to members of the Royal Society about the structure of 'stone' of the medlar and the coffee bean and acid in plants
Wrote Letter L-188 of 1687年06月13日 to members of the Royal Society about wheat and the seeds from a variety of plants
Wrote Letter L-189 of 1687年07月11日 to members of the Royal Society about eggs of silkworms and caterpillars and humans' squinting and a theory for its cause
Wrote Letter L-190 of 1687年08月06日 to members of the Royal Society about the calander and the louse and against spontaneous generation
Wrote Letter L-192 of 1687年09月09日 to members of the Royal Society about ant eggs, larvae and its development, feeding, sting, cocoon and nest
Wrote Letter L-193 of 1687年10月17日 to members of the Royal Society about amber, 'burned paper' from the sky, rotifers, maggots, blow flies, the stinging hairs of nettles, and the East-Indian centipede
Wrote Letter L-194 of 1687年11月28日 to members of the Royal Society about his discovery that cochineal was an insect and his experiments with cinchona bark
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