Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
Standard Name: Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | Maheu got her accepted by Sartre and Nizan
: he put her forward as someone who could help in their study of Leibnitz
. Then Maheu failed the exam which the others passed, and left... |
| Friends, Associates | Catharine Trotter | During her London years she was an ally of Damaris Masham
, but quarrelled with Delarivier Manley
. She found both a patron and a friend in Sarah, Lady Piers
(who wrote poetry herself). She... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Conway | AC
's work was of particular interest to the Philadelphian Society
associated with Jane Lead
. It is now believed to have influenced Leibnitz
(who owned and annotated a copy of her treatise), and through... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | Her defence brought praise from Locke
himself (of the strength and clarity of her reasoning), a gift of books, and the opening of an actual correspondence. It brought her, too, warm praise from John Toland |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | C. E. Plumptre | CP's discussion of Pantheism begins with Hindu and Buddhist texts (The Vedas, Brahminism, The Vedanta Philosophy, The Bhagavad Gita), then moves through several Greek schools. In the modern period she... |
Timeline
1707
Edward Lhuyd
of the Ashmolean Museum
in Oxford first demonstrated in print that the ancient British language was related to the Gaelic of Ireland and Scotland.