Following in Leibniz’s Footsteps
[ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.]
Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum, ex scriptis societati regiae scientiarum exhibitis, edita, continuatio I. cum figuris et indice materiarum. Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723.
4to, pp. [xii], 160, [4], 161–188, with folding engraved frontispiece and 8 folding plates; woodcut initials and illustrations in the text; variable browning with some foxing and offset to plates; bound in contemporary vellum over boards, sewn two-up on 5 cords, edges speckled red and green; dust-stained and a little rubbed, slight rust-marks to upper board; nineteenth-century bookseller’s label (F. Ostinelli, Como) to upper pastedown, bookplate of the University of California, with duplicate release stamp to upper pastedown and unobtrusive perforated stamp to title and plates.
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Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum, ex scriptis societati regiae scientiarum exhibitis, edita, continuatio I. cum figuris et indice materiarum.
First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea berolinensia, the scientific periodical of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences, comprising articles on literature, mathematics, and mechanics.
First appearing in 1710, the publication of the Miscellanea was revived in 1723 as the official journal of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences after the death of Leibniz, its founding President. The Continuatio features contributions by the astronomers Johann Wilhelm Wagner, Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer, and Christfried Kirch, the mathematicians Christoph Langhansen, Jakob Hermann, and Philippe Naudé the younger, and the linguists Gisbert Cuper, Johann Georg Wachter, and Justus Christoph Dithmar.
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