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LEIBNIZ's LIFE and WORKS.

Mainz Years (1667-1672)

YEAR EVENTS, PUBLISHINGS, WRITINGS note
c.
1667
contacts with Johann Christian von Boineburg, a former minister under Johann Philipp von Schönborn (Elector of Mainz), through an alchemist.

decided to live in Mainz and serve under Elector of Mainz, as the secretary or assistant of Boineburg.
1669
Jun
Specimen demonstrationum politicarum pro elegendo rege Polonorum novo scribendi genere ad claram certitudinem exactum

a political pamphlet that applies the method of mathematical demonstration to political issues.
published under a pseudonym ( Georgius Ulicovius Lithuanus ).
1670
May
a letter from Athanasius Kircher.

about Ars Combinatoria.
1670
Aug
got an idea of Concilium Aegyptiacum ( Egyptian conciliation).

which intended to inspire Louis 14 with the ambition of the conquest of Egypt and to turn him away from Europe.
1671
Apr
Hypothesis physica nova.

dedicated to the Royal Society of London.

a complementary work, Theoria motus abstracti, was dedicated to the Royal Academy of Science in Paris.
1671
May
De Usu et neccesitate demonstrationum immortalitatis animae
De Resurrectione corporum


papers sent to Johann Friedrich, Duke of Hannover.
the primitive model of the Monad can be seen.
1671
Jun
correspondence with Pierre de Carcavy, a librarian of the Royal Library in Paris.

wrote about his calculator.
1671 a conversation with François Mercure van Helmont on acoustics (about speaking trumpets).

Helmont was a baron, doctor and mystic, who is said to have given the word "monad" to Leibniz in 1696.
1696

note
1672
Feb
read Philosophus autodidactus sive Epistola Abi ebn Thophail de Hay ben Yoqdhan

A philosophical romance by Ibn Tufail (known as Abubacer), translated from Arabic, published in Oxford, 1671, which originally was written in 12th century Spain. An 'Islamic Utopia' story.

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