Academic Transactions Collection
Commissioned by the mathematician Gregorio Fontana in order to create a stock of scientific journals and acts of the most distinguished academies of the time as a support to students and professors at the University of Pavia, the collection currently retains acts, memories, the periodicals of over 500 Italian and foreign academies, arose between the mid XVII and late XIX century.
Among the most important:
- "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London" (location: Atti Acc. B 13 e B 14), published in London starting from 1665 and considered the first real example of academic act.
- "Acta Academiae scientiarum imperialis petropolitanae" (location: Dep. Riv. 28), founded in San Petersbug in 1724 under the will of Peter the Great and Caterina I.
- "Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum ex scriptis Societatis regiae scientiarum exhibitis edita" (acts released by the society born in 1700 by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, location 181 B 6).
- Accounts from the American Philosophical Society for promoting useful knowledge ("Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadephia", location 178 G 3-4) created in 1743 in Philadelphia under initiative of Benjamin Franklin.
Downlowad the Inventory of Academic Transactions Collection
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