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Leibnitz

noun
1.
German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716).  Synonyms: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leibniz.



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"Leibnitz" Quotes from Famous Books



... later the optimistic theory of the perfection of the universe found an abler exponent in Leibnitz, whom Diderot calls the father of optimism. [Footnote: See particularly Monadologie, ad fin. published posthumously in German 1720, in Latin 1728; Theodicee, Section 341 (1710); and the paper, De rerum originatione ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury


Words linked to "Leibnitz" :   mathematician, philosopher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz


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