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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
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Noun1.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz - German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz - German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
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95 Hardcover B2597 Gottfried Leibniz is best known to casual readers of seventeenth-century history for his long conflict with Isaac Newton over the invention of calculus.
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