Sims-Williams, Patrick. “How are you finding it here?”. London Review of Books, 21 Oct. 1999, pp. 30-31.
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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...
Building item
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.
Texts
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