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001 2007048443
003 DLC
005 20080131082921.0
008 071126s2008 enk b 001 0beng
010 $a 2007048443
020 $a9780521806190 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aB2597$b.A68 2008
082 00 $a193$aB$222
100 1 $aAntognazza, Maria Rosa,$d1964-
245 10 $aLeibniz :$ban intellectual biography /$cMaria Rosa Antognazza.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2008.
263 $a0810
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aYouthful vocations (1646--1676) -- The birth of a vision : background, childhood, and education (July 1646--March 1667) -- War and peace : problems and prospects -- Leibniz's family and Leipzig's religion -- Formal schooling and independent learning -- The rudiments of logic and the alphabet of human thoughts -- Scholastic philosophy and irenical theology -- Ancient metaphysics and modern physics : the universities of Leipzig and Jena, April 1661--October 1663 -- The legal studies of an encyclopaedist : Leipzig and Altdorf, October 1663--February 1667 -- The vision broadens : Nuremberg, Frankfurt, and Mainz (March 1667--March 1672) -- Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Mainz -- Leibniz's great plan : the demonstrationes Catholicae and their Prolegomena -- Logic, the characteristica universalis, and scientific collaboration -- Metaphysics and physics -- Ethics and politics -- Theology -- The road to Paris -- Old wine in new bottles : Paris, London, and Holland (March 1672--December 1676) -- First steps in Paris (March 1672--January 1673) -- The first visit to London (end January--end February 1673) -- Paris : the middle period (March 1673--October 1675) -- The last year in Paris (October 1675--October 1676) -- Back to Germany via London and Holland -- Dreams and reality (1676--1716) -- A universal genius as librarian, historian, and mining engineer : Hanover and Lower Saxony (December 1676--October 1687) -- Under Duke Johann Friedrich : December 1676--December 1679 -- Under Duke Ernst August : January 1680--October 1687 -- Leibniz's great plan : from the demonstrationes Catholicae to the Scientia generalis and the demonstrative encyclopaedia -- Logic and mathematics -- Metaphysics and physics -- Theology -- Ethics and jurisprudence -- In the footsteps of the guelfs : Southern Germany, Austria, and taly (November 1687--June 1690) -- Central and Southern Germany (November 1687--May 1688) -- Vienna (May 1688--February 1689) -- Italy (March 1689--March 1690) -- Return to Hanover (March--June 1690) -- Back under the guelf dukes : Hanover and Wolfenbüttel (June1690--February 1698) -- At the service of the guelf dukes -- Orthodoxy and heresy -- Physics, metaphysics, and mathematics -- Force, monads, and pre-established harmony : the public offensive of the mid-90s -- Dark clouds on the mathematical horizon -- Unus ex nihilo omnia fecit -- Leibniz's multiculturalism : China, Russia, and linguistic studies -- The events of 1697 and the Protestant cause -- Between brother and sister : Hanover and Berlin (February 1698--February 1705) -- The tie of Hanover and the pull of Berlin -- Negotium irenicum -- Philosophy and mathematics -- Reading Locke -- Clashes with Toland and Bayle -- Debating metaphysics and the foundations of ethics -- The escalation of the calculus war -- Mathematical facets of the characteristica universalis -- Sophie Charlotte's death -- Light and shadows : Hanover, Berlin, Wolfenbüttel, Vienna (February 1705--September 1714) -- Leibniz networking -- Private and public debates : mathematical, scientific, and philosophical -- A commerce of light by correspondence -- The "forerunner" of Leibniz's great synthesis -- From bad to worse in the Calculus War -- At the court of the emperor (December 1712--September 1714) -- Epilogue: Last years in Hanover (September 1714--November 1716) -- Unfinished businesses -- Last battles with Newton and the Newtonians -- Unending progress -- Inclinata resurget.
600 10 $aLeibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,$cFreiherr von,$d1646-1716.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007048443-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007048443-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007048443-t.html