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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Chronological Table | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Youthful Vocations (1646-1676) | |
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| The Birth of a Vision: Background, Childhood, and Education (July 1646-February 1667) | |
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| War and Peace: Problems and Prospects | |
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| Leibniz's Family and Leipzig's Religion | |
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| Formal Schooling and Independent Learning | |
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| The Rudiments of Logic and the Alphabet of Human Thoughts | |
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| Scholastic Philosophy and Irenical Theology | |
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| Ancient Metaphysics and Modern Physics: The Universities of Leipzig and Jena, April 1661-October 1663 | |
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| The Legal Studies of an Encyclopaedist; Leipzig and Altdorf, October 1663-February 1667 | |
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| The Vision Broadens: Nuremberg, Frankfurt, and Mainz (March 1667-March 1672) | |
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| Nuremberg, Frankfurt, and Mainz | |
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| Leibniz's Great Plan: The Demonstrationes Catholicae and Their Prolegomena | |
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| Logic, the Characteristica Universalis, and Scientific Collaboration | |
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| Metaphysics and Physics | |
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| Ethics and Politics | |
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| Theology | |
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| The Road to Paris | |
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| Old Wine in New Bottles: Paris, London, and Holland (March 1672-December 1676) | |
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| First Steps in Paris (March 1672-January 1673) | |
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| The First Visit to London (End January-End February 1673) | |
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| Paris: The Middle Period (March 1673-October 1675) | |
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| The Last Year in Paris (October 1675-October 1676) | |
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| Back to Germany via London and Holland | |
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| Dreams and Reality (1676-1716) | |
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| A Universal Genius as Librarian, Historian, and Mining Engineer: Hanover and Lower Saxony (December 1676-October 1687) | |
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| Under Duke Johann Friedrich: December 1676-December 1679 | |
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| Under Duke Ernst August; January 1680-October 1687 | |
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| Leibniz's Great Plan: From the Demomtrationes Catholicae to the Scientia Generalis and the Demonstrative Encyclopaedia | |
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| Logic and Mathematics | |
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| Metaphysics and Physics | |
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| Theology | |
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| Ethics andfurisprudence | |
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| In the Footsteps of the Guelfs: Southern Germany, Austria, and Italy (November 1687-June 1690) | |
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| Central and Southern Germany (November 1687-May 1688) | |
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| Vienna (May 1688-February 1689) | |
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| Italy (March 1689-March 1690) | |
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| Return to Hanover (March-June 1690) | |
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| Back under the Guelf Dukes: Hanover and Wolfenbuttel (June 1690-February 1698) | |
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| At the Service of the Guelf Dukes | |
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| Orthodoxy and Heresy | |
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| Physics, Metaphysics, and Mathematics | |
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| Force, Monads, and Pre-Established Harmony: The Public Offensive of the Mid-9os | |
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| Dark Clouds on the Mathematical Horizon | |
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| Units ex nihilo omnia fecit | |
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| Leibniz's Multiculturalism: China, Russia, and Linguistic Studies | |
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| The Events of 1697 and the Protestant Cause | |
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| Between Brother and Sister: Hanover and Berlin (February 1698-February 1705) | |
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| The Tie of Hanover and the Pull of Berlin | |
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| Negotium Irenicum | |
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| Philosophy and Mathematics | |
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| Reading Locke | |
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| Clashes with Toland and Bayle | |
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| Debating Metaphysics and the Foundations of Ethics | |
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| The Escalation of the Calculus War | |
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| Mathematical Facets of the Characteristica Universalis | |
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| Sophie Charlotte's Death | |
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| Light and Shadows: Hanover, Berlin, Wolfenbiittel, Vienna (February 1705-September 1714) | |
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| Leibniz Networking | |
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| Private and Public Debates: Mathematical, Scientific, and Philosophical | |
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| A Commerce of Light by Correspondence | |
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| The "Forerunner" of Leibniz's Great Synthesis | |
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| From Bad to Worse in the Calculus War | |
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| At the Court of the Emperor (December 1712-September 1714) | |
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| Broadsides between Mathematicians | |
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| Two Pamphlets on Monads | |
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| Return to Hanover | |
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| Epilogue: Last Years in Hanover (September 1714-November 1716) | |
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| Unfinished Business | |
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| Last Battles with Newton and the Newtonians | |
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| Unending Progress | |
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| Inclinata Resurget | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |