YEAR | EVENTS, PUBLISHINGS, WRITINGS | note |
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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. |
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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 ). |
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1670 May |
a letter from Athanasius Kircher. about Ars Combinatoria. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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1671 Jun |
correspondence with Pierre de Carcavy, a librarian of the Royal Library in Paris. wrote about his calculator. |
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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. |