Navigating Historical Learned Societies and Their Publications
The other day I tried to follow a citation for the Akademie der Wissenshaften, Berlin , the Mémoires , 1776. But I have little experience trying to look up these older journals, and was confused to find publications from the Berlin Academy , the Königliche-Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften , journals in Latin, French, and German, under names like Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et des Belles-Lettres de Berlin, Avec les Mémoires pour la même Année, tirez Registres de cette Academie and Miscellanea Berolinensia . I've got a small amount of experience with these older publications, so I knew that you can often find collections, abstracts, summaries, and translations, but I couldn't find a reference on this "Berlin Academy" beyond the Wikipedia page for the Prussian Academy of Sciences (German: Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften ) which featured a history of the Academy, but little on the publication history. Fortunately, the Eu