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This book begins with an observation: At the time when empiricism arose and slowly established itself, the word itself had not yet been coined. Hence the central question of this volume: What does it mean to conduct empirical science in early modern Europe? How can we catch the elusive figure of the empiricist? Our answer focuses on the practices established by representative scholars. This approach allows us to demonstrate two things. First, that empiricism is not a monolith but exists in a plurality of forms. Today's understanding of the empirical sciences was gradually shaped by the...

This volume of the Opera omnia will be devoted to the letters Euler exchanged in French with his friend and countryman Johann Kaspar Wettstein as well as with some Swiss scholars in and around Geneva (Louis Bertrand, Charles Bonnet, Marc-Michel Bousquet, Jean Castillon, Gabriel Cramer, Philibert Cramer, Gaspard Cuentz, Georges-Louis Lesage). It will also include a letter from Johann Michael von Loen, a remote relative of Euler mentioned in the Euler-Bertrand correspondence.

Many letters published in this volume provide new information about Euler's non-scientific activities, like...