anno MDCXCII publicata

BERNOULLI, NUCK, HALLEY, CASSINI, BOYLE, RAMAZZINI, ETC.
4to (212x158 mm). [2], 570, [28: index] pp. and XIII engraved plates (some folding). Collation: [π]1 A-Eeee4 Ffff3. Plate IX and quire Hhh misbound, but complete. Woodcut diagrams in text. 18th-century green vellum over boards, spine covered in richly gilt calf with morocco lettering piece, front panel with the gilt coat-of-arms of Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson (1702-1744, French aristocrat, colonel of the Régiment des Dragons-Dauphin, maréchal des logis de la Maison royale, and later treasurer of Languedoc, famous during his lifetime for the collections he gathered in his Paris hotel and for the Château de la Mosson he built near Montpellier, which caused the family's bankruptcy after his death), back panel with his gilt name within a cartouche, marbled endleaves, red edges (slightly worn and rubbed). Bookplate of Prof. Giorgio Tabarroni, Bologna, on the front pastedown. Uniformly browned as usual, marginal tears to plate III with no loss. A good, genuine copy.
The Acta Eruditorum was arguably the most important scientific journal of its time. Published for 50 years between 1682 and 1731, it was founded in Leipzig by Otto Mencke with the support of Gottfried Leibniz from Hanover. Mencke was the chief editor until 1707. His son Johann Burckhardt Mencke succeeded him as editor-in-chief from 1708 to 1731. After his death in 1732, the journal was renamed Nova Acta Eruditorum and continued its publications until 1782. The journal was published monthly, entirely in Latin, and contained articles, short essays, excerpts from new publications, reviews, and notes on physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, biology, history, archaeology, geography, philology, and literature.
In the 1692 issue stand out the following contributions: J. Bernoulli's Solutio Curvae Causticae per vulgarem Geometriam Cartesianam (pp. 30-35 and pl. I); A. Nuck's Adenographia curiosa et Uteri Foeminei Anatome nova (pp. 97-106 and pl. II); J. Bernoulli's Curvatura Veli (pp. 202-207 and pl. III); Solutio Problematis Florentini, seu Contructio Testudinis Quadrabilis Hemisphericae, autore G.G.L. (pp. 275-279 and pl. V); E. Halley's Reputatio Circulationis aqueorum Maris vaporum et Causa Fontium (pp. 307-312); A. Moulin's Relatio Experimenti de Mercurio sanguini injecto (pp. 313-315); L. Marracci's Prodromus ad Refutationem Alcorani (pp. 329-337 and 371-381); S. Vauban' Ratio probe muniendi (pp. 337-342 and pl. VIII); G.D. Cassini's Diversae Motus Periodi in Jupiter Planeta noviter observatae (pp. 358-365 and pl. IX); D. Guglielmini's Epistolae duae Hydrostaticae (pp. 431-435 and pl. XI); R. Boyle's Experimenta medica (pp. 491-494); B. Ramazzini' De Fontium Mutinensium admiranda Scaturigine (pp. 505-510 and pl. XIII); E. Halley's Emendationes in tria loca Naturalis Historiae C. Plinii (pp. 529-534).
Contents:
Acta Eruditorum, Calendis Januarii 1692: Historiae Britanniae, Saxonicae, Anglo-Danicae, Scriptores quindecim; Parisiensis Deligationum Officina, in qua modus quasvis partium corporis fracturas et luxationes; Dictionarium Mathematicum, sive Idea generalis rerum Mathematicarum; De re monetali veterum Romanorum, Dissertatio academica; Mundus fascinatus, sive accurata excursio sententiae vulgaris de Spirituum natura, viribus, functionibus et officiis; Tractatus de Impari Matrimonio; Solutio curvae causticae per vulgarem Geometriam Cartesianam; Athenae Oxonienses. Historia accurata Scriptorum atque Episcoporum; Epistolae Medicinales variis occasionibus conscriptae; Nicolai Machiavelli ad primam Decadem Historiarum Titi Livii Discursus Politici ; Universae Philosophae Systema. Tomus I; Nova Literaria ex Italia; Libri novi; Acta Eruditorum, Calendis Februarii 1692: Admonitio gravis ad Exules de propinquo illorum reditu in Galliam; Examen libelli adversus Religionem, rempublicam et mutationem in Anglia editi; Difficultates D. Steyarto Theologo Lovaniensi propositae, ex relatione ab illo ad Archiepiscop