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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

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Born Leipzig, (Germany), 1 July 1646

Died Hanover, (Germany), 14 November 1716

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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. Courtesy of History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Large Portraits Collection

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  • Aiton, E. J. (1972). The Vortex Theory of Planetary Motions. London: MacDonald.

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  • Bertoloni Meli, D. (1993). Equivalence and Priority: Newton versus Leibniz. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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  • Hall, A. Rupert (1980). Philosophers at War: The Quarrel between Leibniz and Newton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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  • Vailati, Ezio (1997). Leibniz and Clarke: A Study of Their Correspondence. New York: Oxford University Press.

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  1. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA

    Ezio Vailati

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Vailati, E. (2014). Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_838

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