And the Google Doodle goes to… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz! I admit it: I had never heard of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz until this morning when Google decided to provide the late (obviously) 17th century ...

Sunday's Google Doodle celebrates the 372nd birthday of mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He was born near the end of the Thirty Years War, into a world very different from ...

The latest recipients of Germany's most prestigious research funding prize have been announced. In Bonn today, the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research ...

Earlier this year, [Dan Maloney] went inside mechanical calculators. Being the practical sort, [Dan] jumped right into the Pascaline invented by Blaise Pascal. It couldn’t multiply or divide. He then ...

Sunday's Google Doodle celebrates the 372nd birthday of German philosopher, mathematician and polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Leibnitz was born on July 1, 1646, in Leipzig, Germany, towards the ...

This illustration of the inner workings of a Leibniz calculator was originally published in Theatrum arithmetico-geometricum, das ist by Jacob Leupold. The Leibniz calculator, invented by Gottfried ...

The Journal of History of Philosophy and Science, founded in 1969, is the organ of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Society. She explores the work and thought of Leibniz and serves the knowledge of the ...

Such an age, such a study. Gottfried is a genius, and Hans is a dunce; but Gottfried and Hans were both born in 1646 ; consequently, now, in 1654, they are both equally fit for the Smaller Catechism.

The latest recipients of the most prestigious research funding prize in Germany have been announced: the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) today ...

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