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* Gottfried Leibniz argues in his essay On Nature Itself that refusing to acknowledge an active force in things and instead " simply to absorb this force into a command of God ’ s-a command given just once in the past, having no effect on things and leaving no traces of itself in them-is so far from making the matter easier to grasp that it is more like abandoning the role of the philosopher altogether and cutting the Gordian knot with a sword.
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The dominant view Newton opposed was devised by René Descartes, and was supported ( in part ) by Gottfried Leibniz.
Confucianism influenced Gottfried Leibniz, who was attracted to the philosophy because of its perceived similarity to his own.
Ancillon is mainly remembered for what he did for education in Brandenburg-Prussia, and the share he took, in co-operation with Gottfried Leibniz, in founding the Academy of Berlin.
After finishing his studies he went on long educational voyages from 1710 to 1724 through Europe, visiting other German states, England, Holland, Italy, and France, meeting with many famous mathematicians, such as Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli.
The German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz made a similar argument with his principle of sufficient reason in 1714.
In 1691 Gottfried Leibniz, Christiaan Huygens, and Johann Bernoulli derived the equation in response to a challenge by Jakob Bernoulli.
He was followed by Gottfried Leibniz who spent forty years designing a four-operation mechanical calculator, inventing in the process his leibniz wheel, but who couldn't design a fully operational machine.
The development of the Cartesian coordinate system would play an intrinsic role in the development of the calculus by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
During that time, Fahrenheit met or was in contact with Ole Rømer, Christian Wolff, and Gottfried Leibniz.
Some scholars question whether Frege's negative review of the Philosophy of Arithmetic helped turn Husserl towards Platonism, but he had already discovered the work of Bernhard Bolzano independently around 1890 / 91 and explicitly mentioned Bernard Bolzano, Gottfried Leibniz and Hermann Lotze as inspirations for his newer position.
The concept of energy emerged out of the idea of vis viva ( living force ), which Gottfried Leibniz defined as the product of the mass of an object and its velocity squared ; he believed that total vis viva was conserved.
The origin of the goes back to Gottfried Leibniz, who in the seventeenth century, after having constructed a successful mechanical calculating machine, dreamt of building a machine that could manipulate symbols in order to determine the truth values of mathematical statements.
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According to Pickover, the mathematics behind fractals began to take shape in the 17th century when the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz pondered recursive self-similarity ( although he made the mistake of thinking that only the straight line was self-similar in this sense ).
Newton corrected in the second edition of his Principia an error pointed out by Abauzit, and, when sending him the Commercium Epistolicum, said, " You are well worthy to judge between Gottfried Leibniz and me.
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Discovery of this rule is credited to Gottfried Leibniz ( however, Child ( 2008 ) argues that it is due to Isaac Barrow ), who demonstrated it using differentials.
While most theologians ( e. g. Anselm of Canterbury, René Descartes, and Gottfried Leibniz ) considered God as logically necessary being, Richard Swinburne argued for factual necessity, and Alvin Plantinga argues that God is a causally necessary being.
Gottfried Leibniz later expounds on this view in his work Théodicée ( 1710 ), which argues that God has authored the best of all possible worlds, one that requires the existence of evil to be optimal.
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Goethe's associate Johann Gottfried Herder wrote an essay titled Extract from a correspondence about Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples ( 1773 ) in the early days of the Sturm und Drang movement.
Lessing also brought Mendelssohn to public attention for the first time: Mendelssohn had written an essay attacking Germans ' neglect of their native philosophers ( principally Gottfried Leibniz ), and lent the manuscript to Lessing.
The primacy of Hebrew was still defended by some authors until the emergence of modern linguistics in the second half of the 18th century, e. g. by Pierre Besnier ( 1648 – 1705 ) in A philosophicall essay for the reunion of the languages, or, the art of knowing all by the mastery of one ( 1675 ) and by Gottfried Hensel ( 1687-1767 ) in his Synopsis Universae Philologiae ( 1741 ).
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On 5 October the Halle bookseller Johann Gottfried Oertel offered a catalog of books from Zedler for the upcoming Leipzig Michaelmas fair at discounts of up to 50 %.
Wollaston used his Bakerian lecture in 1805, On the Force of Percussion, to defend Gottfried Leibniz's principle of vis viva, an early formulation of the conservation of energy.
* Gottfried Leibniz – De Arte Combinatoria (' On the Art of Combination ')
On 28 April 1945, the day before the surrender, Camp Commandant Martin Gottfried Weiss had left the Dachau camp, along with most of the regular guards and administrators in the camp.
On January 5, 1919, the DAP was formed, in which not only Harrer and Drexler but also Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart were involved.
On the 175th anniversary of the institution in 2006, the " University of Hannover " was given the name " Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover.
On her thirty-fifth wedding anniversary in April 1931, her son Gottfried married Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark.
On any given night in the later 1970s, one could see Gilbert Gottfried, Joe Piscopo, Bruce Mahler, Mark Schiff, Larry David, and many others.
On the latter date, Imperial Field Marshal Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, and Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, attacked Magdeburg for its rich stores of goods.
Also notable was the work of some Continental Rationalist philosophers, especially Baruch Spinoza's ( 1632 – 1677 ) On the Improvement of the Understanding ( 1662 ) and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's ( 1646 – 1716 ) New Essays on Human Understanding ( completed 1705, published 1765 ).
On 26 October 2005, a new building by Coop Himmelb ( l ) au was opened next to the old building which was constructed 1874-1887 in Venetian Renaissance style by Gottfried Neureuther.
On October 20, 1794, Senator Gottfried von Gall noted in his diary that the numbering and the written documentation of the houses which started eight days earlier was being continued.
On Monday, May 7, 2012, Trans World received a glowing endorsement from Guy Gottfried of Rational Investment Group.
On sabbatical leave at CERN in 1963 – 64, he collaborated with Kurt Gottfried on production and decay of unstable resonances in high-energy hadronic collisions.
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