Wroclaw Collections

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Title page of the first number (1718)

Wroclaw Collections is the short title of the most important German-language scientific journal of the early 18th century . The long title is:

Collection | From | Natural and Medicinal | How also | related art and literature | stories, | So yourself | On. 1717 in the 3 summer months | Issued in Silesia and other countries. | Which shape namely: | 1) The change in thunderstorms from day to day and from time to | Time. 2) Land and weather epidemics, from month to month, according to the influence of Lufft | and weather. 3) Increase and de-growth of field, forest and garden fruits, also all kinds of animal Proventu, in all sorts of European countries from one year to the next have been noticed: How no less 4) what before individual eclatante natural occurrences in the firmament, in the air, on and under the earth, in the water, on people and cattle: also 5) what new physical and medical inventions this time | about brought forth and known: and because 6) what changed in re literaria Phys- | sico-Medica. | Everything in proper connexion and with all kinds of reflections | From various correspondence and other Relationibus, such as large | Partly read together from personal experience; | And | Shown as an attempt | From | Some Breßlauic Medicis. | Summer quarter of 1717. | [Line] | Breßlau, | Bey Michael Hubert, M DCC XVIII.

The title is no longer immediately understandable today: "Stories" can be translated with reports, "Art" with human inventions and the latest technical devices, "Literature" with science. The journal offers the latest reports on events in the fields of nature and medicine and takes a special look at the latest technical inventions and publications.

Some plant descriptions come from the Regensburg pharmacist Johann Wilhelm Weinmann .

In fact, the company is concerned with collecting observations of natural events - especially climatic changes - and relating them to one another, but especially to the occurrence of diseases. Interesting articles in the first issues deal with the sanitary infrastructure of Paris.

Appearance and Responsible

The first edition of the collections appeared for the reporting period 1717 in 1718, the last, No. 38 for the reporting period 1726 in 1730. Responsible persons were Johann Georg Brunschwitz , Andreas Elias Büchner , Johann Kanold , Johann Christian Kundmann and Heinrich Winckler . The publishers were Hubert in Breslau from 1718 to 1720 and judges in Leipzig and Budissin from 1721 to 1729 , i. e. Bautzen . The journal was continued by a new publisher after 1730 under the title: Miscellanea physico-medico-mathematica: or pleasant, curieuse and useful news from Physical- u. Medicinal art and literature stories, also belonging there, which have happened or have become known in Germany and other empires (Erfurt: Jungnicol, [1727] 1731 - [1730] 1734).

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