The Watchmaker Universe by Leonhard Euler 1760
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 2016-11-06

Leonhard Euler was tutor to Friederike Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt and as tutor wrote over 200 letters to her. This is one of them from 12 December 1760. It has to do with the deist conception of God.

In 1723 Leonhard Euler completed his Master's degree in philosophy having compared and contrasted the philosophical ideas of Descartes and Newton.He spent most of his adult life in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, then the capital of Prussia.