| YEAR | EVENTS, PUBLISHINGS, WRITINGS | note |
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| 1690 and after |
very busy. frequent correspondence about reunification of the Church. reading and writing hundreds of letters. sending papers and reviews to various magazines. studies in linguistics, sinology, binary number, geology, calculus, medical science, physics, metaphysics... lots of work for the Court of Hannover (political, diplomatic, historiographic, bibliographic, jurisprudential...). |
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| 1691 Oct |
Sophie (Duchess of Hannover) consulted with Leibniz about a young visionary woman's case. Rosamunde von der Asseburg (born 1672) could see visions of Jesus from childhood. One day the vision told her to write down his words, she did, and began to make troublesome prophecies : Jesus will come again in 1693 and the millennium will begin. Leibniz permits miracles and thinks Rosamunde is a very respectable person (as well as St. Teresa), but judges the case not a mystery. He explains to Sophie the mechanism of visions psychologically. |
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| c. 1691 |
Protogaea a work of geology or natural history (with many graphics). Only the summary of the plan appears in Acta Eruditorum in January, 1693 (Buffon read this summary; the whole is not published until 1749, the year the first 3 books of Buffon's Histoire naturelle are published). |
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| 1693 May |
Codex juris gentium diplomaiticus . a collection of law documents of the 12-15th century (mainly unprinted/before-Gutenberg materials). Leibniz wrote the introduction. |
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| 1695 Apr |
Specimen dynamicum pro admirandis naturae legibus circa corporum vires et mutuas actiones detegendis et ad suas causas revocandis a general treaties on his axiomatic dynamics. Sent to Acta Eruditorum. |
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| 1695 Jun |
Système nouveau de la nature et de la communication des substances, aussi bien que de l'union qu'il y a entre l'âme et le corps the first publishing concerning his metaphysics in general. Sent to French magazine, Journal des Savants, a controversy arose (Objectors : Simon Foucher, Henri Basbage de Beauval, Pierre Bayle, François Lami...). the famous pre-established harmony came out. |
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| 1696 Sep |
a letter to Michel Angelo Fardella, an Italian professor of astronomy. the most Leibnizian word monad came out. |
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| 1697 Jan |
dedicated a design of the medal for Rudolf August, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. a table of the binary number system is drawn. There exists three types of sketches drawn by Leibniz. |
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| 1697 Apr |
Novissima Sinica a collection of missionary reports and letters on China. Leibniz wrote only the preface. |
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| 1697 Oct |
a letter from Joachim Bouvet (a missionary of Society of Jesus), his latest book Portrait historique de l'Empereur de la Chine (dedicated to Louis 14) enclosed. Bouvet, had just returned to Paris from China, got a copy of Novissima Sinica and informed Leibniz of the latest and detailed data. Leibniz translated the book of Bouvet into Latin, added it to the 2nd edition of Novissima Sinica (1699). |