Leibniz wrote to the electress to suggest that the plans for the observatory be widened to embrace an Academy of Sciences. |
He had weekly meetings with her and at her request he entered into dispute with Leibniz over the nature of space and time. |
Then in his responses to necessitarianism Leibniz can say that the necessitarianism he's avoiding is a logical necessitarianism. |
Ten years later Leibniz, independently, used determinants to solve simultaneous equations although Seki's version was the more general. |
The characters in my fable are modern-day versions of Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz. |
According to Leibniz, the world is made up of indivisible, but nevertheless complex, self-sufficient units that he called monads. |