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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; 1 July 1646 [O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist...
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  • provided as an overview of and topical guide to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (1 July 1646 [O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716);...
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    The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (German: Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft)...
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    interruption. Famous alumni include Angela Merkel, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leopold von Ranke, Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert Schumann...
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    dx2 In calculus, Leibniz's notation, named in honor of the 17th-century German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, uses the symbols...
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    stepped reckoner or Leibniz calculator was a mechanical calculator invented by the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (started in 1673, when...
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  • Impenetrability (category Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
    sufficient to define matter, a contention strongly disputed by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. Locke considered impenetrability to be "more a consequence...
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    conducted in an exchange of letters between the German thinker Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke, an English supporter of Isaac Newton during...
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  • Alsace A notable early modern bearer of the name is Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646–1716). Gottfried remains comparatively popular in Germany, ranking...
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    dispute') was an argument between the mathematicians Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over who had first invented calculus. The question was a major...
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    Johann Gottfried von Herder (/ˈhɜːrdər/ HUR-dər; German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈhɛʁdɐ]; 25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian...
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    association. The Leibniz-Sozietät bears its name in memory of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz as the initiator and first president of the Electoral Brandenburg...
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  • Prevention (IAP) at Helmholtz Center Munich. Erika von Mutius received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2013 for her basic insights into the causes...
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    the French Petit Beurre) called Leibniz-Keks in homage to the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. Today many other companies throughout...
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    psychology and psychophysics – and where two centuries earlier Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz had developed his philosophy and theoretical psychology, which...
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    issue to "Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg (1795–1876) The man and his legacy". Christian Ehrenberg was the son of Johann Gottfried Ehrenberg (1757–1826)...
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    and perhaps only truly, advocated by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. Like Malebranche and others before him, Leibniz recognized the weaknesses of Descartes'...
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    flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The genus is named for Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716), German scientist and mathematician Species Leibnitzia...
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  • 20th-century novelist Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz – mathematician and philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – German playwright and poet Wilhelm Lexis – German...
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  • by John Locke, but catalysts to the uncovering of knowledge. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz suggested that we are born with certain innate ideas, the most...
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    notable adherent to the idea of pre-established harmony is Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz in his theory of Monadology. His explanation of pre-established...
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  • known principally for his 1842 biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and his completion (1853) of Theodor Wilhelm Danzel's biography of Lessing, G. E. Lessing...
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  • Martin Beneke (category Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners)
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2008 Lehrstuhl von Martin Beneke, Technische Universität München Martin Beneke, RWTH Aachen Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a German philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat...
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  • Stefan Maul (category Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners)
    December 1958 in Aachen) is a German Assyriologist and holder of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Maul studied Assyriology, Near Eastern Archaeology and...
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  • century by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz independently of each other. An argument over priority led to the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy...
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  • ecclesiastical history. Having published his translation of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz's System of Theology in 1850, he was occupied on his Life of...
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    1790s with Schiller, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have...
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    Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands, Isaac Newton in England, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (with whom he maintained a lifelong correspondence) in Paris....
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    to some philosophers of the early modern period, most notably Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, there are infinite monads, which are the basic and immaterial...
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