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Article: Leibniz, G. W. and Clarke, Samuel. Correspondence.
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- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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Edited by Roger Ariew. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000. xvi + 110 pp. Paper, $8.95--The correspondence between G. W. Leibniz and Samuel Clarke on the implications of Sir Isaac Newton's physics to natural theology was the last battle that Leibniz fought with the Newtonians. That battle, not so famous as the one over the invention of calculus, ended abruptly with the death of Leibniz in November 1716; however, Clarke soon after translated the correspondence into English and published it in 1717. It became one of a relatively tiny number of Leibniz's writings to be published before the nineteenth century. Thus, besides being a meaningful clash of the ...
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