Leibniz, probably the last universal scholar of modernity, produced original and innovative achievements in essential fields of knowledge of his time: as a reform-oriented jurist, a multilaterally thinking diplomat, as a mathematician of infinitesimal calculus, as the inventor of a calculating machine, as an organizer of science and as one of the first historians to work in a source-critical manne...
Leibniz, probably the last universal scholar of modernity, produced original and innovative achievements in essential fields of knowledge of his time: as a reform-oriented jurist, a multilaterally thinking diplomat, as a mathematician of infinitesimal calculus, as the inventor of a calculating machine, as an organizer of science and as one of the first historians to work in a source-critical manne...