Leibniz
Subtitle: an intellectual biography
By: Maria Rosa Antognazza.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521806190
Subjects: Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, -- Freiherr von, -- 1646-1716
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Youthful vocations (1646; title: 1676); title: The birth of a vision : background, childhood, and education (July 1646; title: March 1667); title: War and peace : problems and prospects; title: Leibniz's family and Leipzig's religion; title: Formal schooling and independent learning; title: The rudiments of logic and the alphabet of human thoughts; title: Scholastic philosophy and irenical theology; title: Ancient metaphysics and modern physics : the universities of Leipzig and Jena, April 1661; title: October 1663; title: The legal studies of an encyclopaedist : Leipzig and Altdorf, October 1663; title: February 1667; title: The vision broadens : Nuremberg, Frankfurt, and Mainz (March 1667; title: March 1672); title: Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Mainz; title: Leibniz's great plan : the demonstrationes Catholicae and their Prolegomena; title: Logic, the characteristica universalis, and scientific collaboration; title: Metaphysics and physics; title: Ethics and politics; title: Theology; title: The road to Paris; title: Old wine in new bottles : Paris, London, and Holland (March 1672; title: December 1676); title: First steps in Paris (March 1672; title: January 1673); title: The first visit to London (end January; title: end February 1673); title: Paris : the middle period (March 1673; title: October 1675); title: The last year in Paris (October 1675; title: October 1676); title: Back to Germany via London and Holland; title: Dreams and reality (1676; title: 1716); title: A universal genius as librarian, historian, and mining engineer : Hanover and Lower Saxony (December 1676; title: October 1687); title: Under Duke Johann Friedrich : December 1676; title: December 1679; title: Under Duke Ernst August : January 1680; title: October 1687; title: Leibniz's great plan : from the demonstrationes Catholicae to the Scientia generalis and the demonstrative encyclopaedia; title: Logic and mathematics; title: Metaphysics and physics; title: Theology; title: Ethics and jurisprudence; title: In the footsteps of the guelfs : Southern Germany, Austria, and taly (November 1687; title: June 1690); title: Central and Southern Germany (November 1687; title: May 1688); title: Vienna (May 1688; title: February 1689); title: Italy (March 1689; title: March 1690); title: Return to Hanover (March; title: June 1690); title: Back under the guelf dukes : Hanover and Wolfenbüttel (June1690; title: February 1698); title: At the service of the guelf dukes; title: Orthodoxy and heresy; title: Physics, metaphysics, and mathematics; title: Force, monads, and pre-established harmony : the public offensive of the mid-90s; title: Dark clouds on the mathematical horizon; title: Unus ex nihilo omnia fecit; title: Leibniz's multiculturalism : China, Russia, and linguistic studies; title: The events of 1697 and the Protestant cause; title: Between brother and sister : Hanover and Berlin (February 1698; title: February 1705); title: The tie of Hanover and the pull of Berlin; title: Negotium irenicum; title: Philosophy and mathematics; title: Reading Locke; title: Clashes with Toland and Bayle; title: Debating metaphysics and the foundations of ethics; title: The escalation of the calculus war; title: Mathematical facets of the characteristica universalis; title: Sophie Charlotte's death; title: Light and shadows : Hanover, Berlin, Wolfenbüttel, Vienna (February 1705; title: September 1714); title: Leibniz networking; title: Private and public debates : mathematical, scientific, and philosophical; title: A commerce of light by correspondence; title: The "forerunner" of Leibniz's great synthesis; title: From bad to worse in the Calculus War; title: At the court of the emperor (December 1712; title: September 1714); title: Epilogue: Last years in Hanover (September 1714; title: November 1716); title: Unfinished businesses; title: Last battles with Newton and the Newtonians; title: Unending progress; title: Inclinata resurget.