YEAR | EVENTS, PUBLISHINGS, WRITINGS | note |
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1687 Oct |
left Hannover for Italy. travelled through München, Hildesheim, Rheinfels, Frankfurt, Augusburg, Nürnberg and other places. in research of historical manuscripts, in search of the possibility of the reunification of the Catholic and the Protestant. on the way, met many people, read many manuscripts, saw many curious collections, manied many manies. |
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1688 May |
arrived at Wien. stayed for half a year. Leibniz got sick. |
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1689 Feb |
Tentamen de motuum coelestium causis. a paper sent to Acta Eruditorum, inspired by the review of Newton's Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (so called Principia, 1687). | |
1689 Feb |
to Italy. in Rome, met Grimaldi (a missionary of Society of Jesus) and got information on China. visited Florence, Bologna (met Malpighi), Modena, Venice, Naples (climbed Mt. Vesuvius). many people, many manuscripts. |
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1689 Nov |
Dynamica de potentia et legibus naturae corporeae. written after reading Newton's Principia. | |
1690 |
the way back to Hannover. returns in June. |