Acta Eruditorum by Leibniz (11 results)

paperback. Vrin Mathesis 1995. in-8. 508 pages. Vrin Mathesis 1995. in-8. 508 pages. Nb de volume : 1. Excellent état . En 1684 le tout nouveau periodique edite a Leipzig, les Acta Eruditorum, publie le texte fondateur du calcul leibnizien: Nova methodus pro maximis et minimis. Ce n'etait pas le premier article de Leibniz dans cette revue et ce ne sera pas le dernier. De 1682 a 1713 s'echelonnent des publications, aujourd'hui classiques, sur l'Isochrone, la Chainette, la Brachystochrone, etc. Ce volume en reunit vingt-six, en majorite traduites pour la premiere fois en langue francaise. Leur selection fut essentiellement guidee par la volonte de mettre a la portee du lecteur les principaux ecrits mathematiques de Leibniz consacres au calcul differentiel et integral. Outre les resultats scientifiques, on decouvrira dans ces textes l'interet epistemologique de Leibniz pour l'invention, la methode, l'histoire et son souci d'une ethique de la recherche.

8vo, pp. 199-254, rthis fascicule only, bound in later marbled wrappers. Two small textual figures in the text. With typed bookseller catalogue entry for the book laid in, though the bookseller is not noted. A single fascule from one of the most influential Western philosophical works. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarto. Contemporary vellum. 540 pp., + Indices, errata. Four engraved plates, one folding. Old institutional bookplate, a nice, near fine copy. Text in Latin. A volume in an annual series of books published from 1682 to 1734 containing surveys of recent advances in science and literature. Contains contributions by Leibniz and others. An attractive copy.

Sm. 4to., (8), 653, index (7)pp. [*4 A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Zzz4 Aaaa-Llll4.] With fourteen of fifteen plates (mostly foldout); plate IX missing. Some light foxing and discoloration throughout, a very small number of marginal annotations, library bookplate on front pastedown o/w a very good copy. Founded in 1682, Acta Eruditorum was the first scientific journal published in the German-speaking regions of Europe. The journal is especially notable as a venue for the work of Leibniz, and as his standard bearer in the battle with Isaac Newton over which of the two deserved the greater credit for the development of differential calculus. This volume, which collects 12 issues published monthly in 1689, includes Leibniz's essay "Tentamen de Motuum Coelestium Causis" (pp. 8296), which outlines his "solar vortex theory" of the movement of the planets and represents a foundational examination of centrifugal force. The essay is accompanied by a remarkable plate illustrating Leibniz's theorization of planetary rotation and the role of centrifugal force in its operation.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarto. 549 pp., + Indices. Seven engraved plates, three are folding. Contemporary stiff pastepaper boards. Some spotting to the boards, still a sound, very good copy. Text in Latin. A volume in an annual series of books published from 1682 to 1734 containing surveys of recent advances in science and literature. Includes Leibniz, *de Origine Francorum disquisitio.* An attractive copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 4to. (1) Bl., 537 S., (18) Bl. 3 Kupfertafeln. Vorgebunden: Dass., Tomus VI. - Ibid. 1717. (1) Bl., 543 S., (15) Bl. Mit 2 (1 gefalt.) Kupfertafeln. Angebunden: Indices generales autorum et rerum quarti actorum eruditorum. decennii, nec non supplementorum tomi sexti et septimi. - Ibid. 1723. (252) Bl. Zeitgenössischer Pergamentband mit hs. Rückentitel. Schönes Exemplar. Erste Ausgabe der lateinischen Übersetzung der "Monadologie"; im Jahr zuvor war eine deutsche Übersetzung des französischen Originals erschienen, das erst 1840 veröffentlicht wurde. - Ravier 3570; cf. PMM 177b. First edition in Latin, following the edition in German of the previous year. The original French was published in 1840. A fine copy. Ravier 3570; cf. PMM 177b (1720 ed.).

Kein Einband. Condition: Ausreichend. 4to. Additio . ad solutionem problemata . p. 42. Excerpta ex epistola . p. 141-144. Supplementum geometriae practicae . p. 178-180. Ad problema, majo nupero in . p. 313. Supplementum geometriae dimensoriae . p. 385-392, 1 plate. Excerptum ex epistola . p. 476-477. The entire volume has 546 p. + index. Unbound, last quires loose. Ravier 123, 124, 125, 127, 131, 132.

Third edition of the first published work on the subject of calculus, in the 1684 volume of the German scientific journal Acta eruditorum, here included as part of a run of the first eight years of the journal in a uniform contemporary binding, and unusual in commerce in such state. The journal was issued in monthly parts. Recent scholarship by Samuel V. Lemley has determined there were three editions of the October monthly part including Leibniz's paper. The first edition was printed in 1684, the second in 1686. This is the third edition, incorporating Leibniz's revisions, printed in 1692 or 1693. The plate accompanying the paper is in the first state. It is apparent that individual parts were reprinted to allow subscribers to fill out incomplete sets, and that these reprintings were authorized, rather than piracies. The paper, just seven pages long, "was the first attempt to set out the rules governing infinitesimal procedures. The rules are introduced geometrically, translated into algebraic terms, and then redescribed in terms of differentials. This enables Leibniz to provide basic rules of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Specifying rules for the manipulation of signs, depending on whether the ordinates increase or decrease, he moves to the behaviour of curves, leading him to introduce second-order differentials, and by these means he offers procedures for finding powers and taking roots. Nevertheless, it should be said that the programme advocated in Nova methodus was obscurely formulated, and the paper was so cautious in its presentation that it hardly mentioned infinitesimals at all. The programme was quickly developed by the Bernoullis and others, however, and the first textbook, Guillaume de l'Hôpital's Analyse des infiniment petits (1696), written under the guidance of Johann Bernoulli, is far more explicit" (Clarke & Wilson, p. 349). Through its adoption and elaboration by these and other contemporaries, calculus was soon firmly established in western mathematics. Leibniz's paper famously preceded Newton's publication of his own discovery of calculus, and the question of whether Leibniz plagiarized Newton's unpublished work caused a lengthy furore in the scientific world; it is now recognized that both men discovered calculus independently. "The infinitesimal calculus originated in the seventeenth century with the researches of Kepler, Cavalieri, Torricelli, Fermat and Barrow, but the two independent inventors of the subject, as we understand it today, were Newton and Leibniz. The subsequent controversy in the early part of the eighteenth century as to the priority of their discoveries - one of the most notorious disputes in the history of science - led to an unfortunate divorce of English from Continental mathematics that lasted until the end of the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Although both Newton and Leibniz developed similar ideas, Leibniz devised a superior symbolism and his notation is now an essential feature in all presentations of the subject" (PMM). The Acta Eruditorum was established in 1682, in imitation of the Journal des Savans, and ran till 1731. Published under the auspices of the Collegium Gellianum, with support from the Duke of Saxony, it covered a wide range of topics, including medicine, mathematics, physics, law, history, geography, and theology. The journal soon became the most well-known German publication of its kind. Contributors included Boyle, Leeuwenhoek, Bernoulli, Pascal, Huygens, Halley, and Descartes, alongside Leibniz. Dibner 109; Grolier/Horblit 66a; Norman 1326; PMM 160. Samuel V. Lemley, "Printing Leibniz's Calculus: Dating and Numbering the Editions of the Nova Methodus pro Maximis et Minimis", in The Library, pp. 177-196, vol. 22, no. 2, 2021; Desmond M. Clarke & Catherine Wilson, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, 2013. 8 vols, quarto (207 x 152 mm). With 117 plates, many folding. Bound without plate 14 in 1684 vol., and a few minor defects in other vols. Contemporary calf, twin red and brown calf labels, gilt in spine compartments, effaced early shelf labels at foot of spines, triple gilt rule to covers, marbled endpapers, red edges. Slight peripheral wear, a few joints a little split at ends but all firm, bindings in generally fresh condition, browning to contents as usual, a few folding plates cropped into neatline, slight staining at edges of 1682, 1683, and 1685 vols. A very good set.

Lipsiae, J. Grossius, 1700. Small 4to (19.6 x 15.8 cm). pp. 198-208, in the complete volume for the year 1700, containing a total of 586 pp. and ten plates. Contemporary vellum binding with leather title label and gilt lettering. = Leibniz' reaction to Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, at the height of the controversy between Leibniz and Newton over the invention of calculus. Up until 1693 the method of fluxions (which had been invented by Newton, and had been of great assistance to him in his mathematical investigations) was still, except to Newton and his friends, a secret. Newton admirers in the Netherlands informed him that the method of fluxions had been introduced there under the name of Gottfried Leibniz's Calculus Differentialis. In 1699, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier published a tract in which he stated that Newton was by several years the first inventor of the calculus, and insinuated that Leibniz had stolen the idea. It was the start of a serious controversy between Leibniz and Newton, carried on by their followers for years after both famous mathematicians had died. In this article in the Acta Eruditorum, Leibniz replied to Fatio de Duilleir by citing Newton's letters and the testimony that Newton had rendered to him in the Principia as proofs of his independent authorship of the method. A very good copy in contemporary vellum; ancient library stamp and superimposed cancellation stamp on verso of title, small paper label with call number on bottom of spine and removed paste on inside cover. Vellum on covers discoloured, first few pages age-toned, but in general a nice, clean copy.

Leipzig, 1721. 4to. Both entire volumes (Acta Eruditorum 1721 + Supplementa VII, 1721) present, in uniform contemporary full vellum bindings with handwriting to spines. A small later label to top of spines. Old handwritten ex libris-inscription to top of both title-pages as well as a small stamp. The supplement-volume with an additional stamp to title-page, and both volumes with library label (Archiv des k.k. militär.-geograf Institutes) to pasted down front free end-paper. As usual some brownspotting. A nice set. pp. 500-514 (Supplement-vol.) + pp. 94-95. [Entire volumes: (2), 537, (39) pp. + three plates (Suppl.-vol.) + (4), 547, (42) pp. + five plates]. The highly important first Latin translation of Leibnitz' seminal "The Monadology" - his main philosophical work and the work that stands as the epitomization of anti-materialism - which was not published in the original French until 1814, and which only appeared in a German translation (exceedingly scarce) in 1720 and in a Latin translation, by Christian Wolff, in 1721, as it is here. Up until then, Leibnitz' key philosophical text had only circulated in manuscript form (written in 1714). - Here sold together with Wolff's anonymously written review of (the German version of the) "Monadology", which had great impact upon the reception of the seminal philosophical text that is the "Monadology"."Until the XXth century, criticism about Leibniz's "Principles of Nature and Grace" and "Monadology" has been characterised by a number of mistakes and misunderstandings, which have roots in the circumstances surrounding the genesis of these manuscripts. As a consequence, erroneous information about these texts was included in an anonymous review, published in 1721 in the "Acta eruditorum" of Leipzig. Research on primary sources proves that the author of this review (who was in fact the author of the latin translation of the Monadology, published immediately afterwards) was Christian Wolff, who was in possession of a copy of Leibniz's manuscript as early as 1717. Wolff's initiative of translating the Monadology can be seen as part of a cultural strategy aiming to prevent any idealistic interpretation of Leibniz's monadological thought. From this point of view, to consider the theory of pre-established harmony as based on a system of strictly dualistic metaphysics was an essential element of Wolff's philosophical strategy."(Antonio Lamarra: Contexte génétique et première reception de la "Monadologie". Leibniz, Wolff et la doctrine de l'harmonie préétablie"). During his last stay in Vienna from 1712 to September 1714, Leibniz wrote two short texts, which were meant as concise expositions of his philosophy, namely the "Principes de la Nature et de la Grace fondés en raison" (written as a letter to Prince Eugene of Savoy) and the work we now know as the "Monadology" (which he had been asked to write by Nicolas Redmond, Duke of Orleons) - the latter being the work that established Leibnitz' fame as a philosopher and which has gone down in history as, not only as one of the most important philosophical texts of the 18th century, but also, arguably the most important work of immaterialism. After his death "Principes de la Nature et de la Grace fondés en raison" appeared in French in the Netherlands. Without having seen this publication, Christian Wolff and collaborators had assumed that it contained the French original of the "Monadology" as well, although this in fact remained unpublished until 1840. Thus it happened that Leibnitz' key philosophical text, which came to be known as "The Monadology", was printed in German and Latin ab. 120 years before it appeared in the original French. The German translation appeared in 1720 as "Lehrsätze über die Monadologie" and the following year the Latin translation appeared, in Acta Eruditorum, as "Principia philosophiae". Three manuscript versions of the text exist: the first written by Leibniz and overcharged with corrections and two further emended copies with some corrections appearing in one but not the other. "Leibniz was one of the last "universal men" of the type which the Italian Renaissance had ideally postulated: philosopher, historian, mathematician, scientist, lawyer, librarian, and diplomat. In all these fields either all his actual achievements or his seminal suggestions have become part and parcel of European thought. Although trained for the law, mathematics was his favourite subject. Independently of Newton he worked out the infinitesimal calculus, introduced a number of mathematical symbols now in general use, and constructed an early calculating machine, the ancestor of our computers. Mathematical conceptions also determine his philosophy. In it, Leibniz tried to combine physics and metaphysics and to reconcile philosophy and theology. The "essay on a Theodicy" is the only larger philosophical work published by himself" but his fame as a philosopher rests on his "Theory of Monads". The original French text of this was published for the first time in 1840" but it had circulated in manuscript in its initial form of a letter addressed to Prince Eugene of Savoy (1714) and it was printed in German (1720) and Latin (1721) translations. Leibniz proclaimed a "pre-established harmony" of the universe which he explained as composed of hierarchically ordered "monads", i.e. the ultimate substances of mind as well as matter. This concept clearly reflects the ideal of the properly organized absolutist state of the baroque period and derives partly from the "idées simples" of Descartes whom Leibniz greatly admired. A generation later, Voltaire ridiculed the "pre-established harmony" in "Candide"" but modern nuclear science has vindicated Leibniz's basic ideas, albeit from different presuppositions." (Printing and the Mind of Man, pp. 105-6). The "Monadology" is an extremely condense work that consists of 90 (in this Latin version, 93) numbered sections/paragraphs, which outline a metaphysics of a single subst.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1717. 4to. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCCXVII". The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. A small stamp to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. Pp. 317-322" Pp. 322-336 Pp. 353-360 Pp. 360-362. [Entire volume: (4), 553, (39) pp. + seven engraved plates.]. First printing of the famous Libnitz-issue of Acta Eruditorum published a year after the death of Leibnitz, including the renowned obituary by the German philosopher Christian Wolff. In 1706, Leibniz recommended Wolff for the Professorship at Halle, the post Wolff held for seventeen years until his dismissal, and in 1711, Leibniz sponsored Wolff's membership to the Berlin Academy. It is also mentioned that during the year of Leibniz's death in 1716, Leibniz visited Wolff in Halle when returning to Hanover from Vienna. To honor Leibnitz memory Wolff undertook the project of writing ELOGIUM GODOFREDI GUILIEMI LEIBNITII, a treatise of the life of Leibnitz. As early as 1679 George I, acting as Leibnitz patron, directed him to write the history of the house of Brunswick. Immediately after he began arranging material he had collected. The work was, however, only the preparatory steps when Leibnitz died in 1716 and the work was never published. The present paper, NOTITIA DE HISTORIA BRUNSUICENSI, is the only part of the work, which could have become a opus magnum with historiography, that has ever been published. The volume also contains:Goldbach, Christian. Temperamentum Musicum Universale. Pp. 114-15.And many other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.