Definition of Gottfried wilhelm leibniz

1. Noun. 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).

Exact synonyms: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, Leibnitz, Leibniz
Generic synonyms: Mathematician, Philosopher
Derivative terms: Leibnitzian, Leibnizian

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Literary usage of Gottfried wilhelm leibniz

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History by Otto Pfleiderer (1886)
"gottfried wilhelm leibniz. THE philosophy of religion of LEIBNIZ, as well as his metaphysics, with which it is closely interwoven, is the very opposite, ..."

2. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"gottfried wilhelm leibniz Philosophy made little headway in Germany during the centuries preceding the eighteenth. The barren theological controversies ..."

3. The Place of the Elementary Calculus in the Senior High-school Mathematics by Noah Bryan Rosenberger (1921)
"... gottfried wilhelm leibniz. The following quotation states tersely a fundamental difference between the calculus of Leibniz and that of Newton. ..."

4. History of Philosophy by William Turner (1903)
"gottfried wilhelm leibniz was born at Leipzig in 1646. At the age of fifteen he entered the university of his native city, devoting himself to the study of ..."

5. A History of Mathematics by Florian Cajori (1919)
"gottfried wilhelm leibniz (1646-1716) was born in Leipzig. No period in the history of any civilized nation could have been less favorable for literary and ..."

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