YEAR | EVENTS, PUBLISHINGS, WRITINGS | note |
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1698 Jan |
Ernst August died and was succeeded by Georg Ludwig (later George 1, King of England). | |
1700 Feb |
is selected a member of Académie de science in Paris. | |
1700 Mar |
Elector of Brandenburg permits the foundation of Sozietät der Wissenschaft (a society of science) in Berlin.
Leibniz is elected the president of the Society. The only income of it was from the sales of calendars. |
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1703 May |
Explication de l'arithmétique binare, qui se sert des seuls caractères 0 et 1, avec des remarques sur son utilité et sur ce qu'elle donne le sens des anciennes firures Chinois de FOHY a study in binary number and I Ching, deciphers the latter with the former. Published in Mémoires de l'Académie de Science de Paris (this issue is put into print 1705). |
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1704 summer |
Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain a dialog contra Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690). Not published until 1765. |
cf. |
1705 Jan |
Sophie Charlotte (daughter of Ernst August, Electoress of Brandenburg and Queen of Prussia) died. Essais de Théodicée (1710) is dedicated to the memory of the conversations with her. | |
1710 May |
the 1st issue of the transaction of the society of science in Berlin (Miscellanea Berolinensia) is published. Leibniz wrote many articles (on mathematics, calculators, linguistics, phosphorus, aurora). |
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1710 | Essais de Théodicée. the most popular book of Leibniz. Throughout the 18th century, the name of Leibniz means the author of this book. Published in Amsterdam. |