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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz - Opera Omnia, 1768

01 Jul 2015

Steffi Sams

Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizThe 1st July 1646 saw the birth of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, a German philosopher and ‘universal thinker’. He studied philosophy and mathematics, and later acquired a law degree. He became a member of the Royal Society and the Académie des Sciences in Paris and regularly corresponded with international scientists. He documented the binary system and invented a calculator that was capable of all four arithmetical operations. He also served as a librarian in the Bibliotheca Augusta in Wolfenbüttel, and one of his aims was to coordinate and collate research. He suggested publishers should distribute abstracts of all new titles in a year, in a standard format which would facilitate indexing – much in the way the Library of Congress indexes journal articles in PubMed nowadays. Leibniz died in 1716 and left a huge collection of unpublished manuscripts.

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Opera omnia, published in 1768 in six volumes, contains comprehensive writings across the breadth of Leibniz’s interests and includes some of his correspondence with famous scientists of his time.

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