WhiZ Hearts - Gottfried Willhelm von Leibniz

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German philosopher and mathematician. Leibniz was born in Leipzig, where he attended university from the age of 15, and submitted a thesis for the degree of doctor of law at the age of 20. In 1667 he entered the service of the Elector of Mainz, where he remained until 1672, engaged largely in political writing. He traveled to Paris in 1672, partly to try to persuade Louis XIV to expel the Turks from Egypt; here he also met Malebranche, Arnauld and Huygens. He visited England in 1673, and again in 1676, at which time he had completed his discovery of the differential calculus. In this year he traveled to Amsterdam and met Spinoza, and became librarian to the Duke of Brunswick at Hanover, a post he held until his death. He worked on among other things hydraulic presses, windmills, lamps, submarines, clocks, carriages and water pumps. Between 1680 and 1697 he was working on his own system of philosophy. Leibniz was the greatest polymath of modern philosophers, making contributions to mathematics, jurisprudence, and history, as well as philosophy. He corresponded with extensively with all the major learned men of the time, and was the founder of the academy of Berlin. In 1711 he met the Russian czar Peter the Great. He died November 14, 1716 in Hanover.

Works

• On the art of combination (1666)
• New Physical Hypothesis (1671)
• Discourse of Metaphysics (1685)
• The New System (1695)
• New Essays on Human Understanding (1705)
• Theodicy (1710)
• The  Monadology (1713)