Table of contents
Foreword
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Contributors
1. The principle of continuity and the ‘paradox’ of Leibnizian mathematics
2. Geometrization or mathematization: Christiaan Huygens’s critiques of infinitesimal analysis in his correspondence with Leibniz
3. Leibniz and the vis viva controversy
4. The controversy between Leibniz and Papin: From the public debate to the correspondence
5. Leibniz vs. Stahl: A controversy well beyond medicine and chemistry
6. Leibniz’s conciliatory approaches in scientific controversies
7. Leibniz vs. Lamy: How does confused perception unite soul and body?
8. Leibniz vs. Foucher: Is there anything wrong with the Système Nouveau?
9. Quantification of natural and positive laws: How to organize privileges?
10. Leibniz’s critique of Pufendorf: A dispute in the eve of the Enlightenment
11. Leibniz vs. Jablonski: An intestine struggle on uniting the Protestant camp
12. The golden rule: Aspects of Leibniz’s method for religious controversy
13. Leibniz vs. Bossuet: Which reasons for Irenicism?
Name index
Subject index
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