Leibniz: Writings on the Metaphysics of the Infinite
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 September 2025
- ISBN 9780192865885
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 700
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Short description:
This is a selection of 12 original Latin texts by Leibniz on the metaphysics of the infinite, 10 of which are accurately transcribed and edited for the first time. Each paper is accompanied by a commentary explaining its significance for understanding Leibniz's thought, situating it in the context of other writings in the Leibnizian corpus.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is famous in mathematics predominantly for his invention of the differential calculus, and in philosophy for his metaphysics of monads and system of pre-established harmony. But at the heart of his thinking in both fields lay his profound meditations on the infinite. In the 1690s Leibniz was engaged in promulgating his thought on the infinite in both its mathematical and its philosophical aspects. On the one hand, he had advertised his intention to write a treatise on the Science of the Infinite, De scientia infiniti, in which he would give an account of the foundations of mathematics. On the other, he was much occupied in the same years with promoting his own metaphysical system, both as the foundation for his new science of dynamics in his revised conception of substance, and as a superior alternative to the occasionalism of Malebranche and Sturm.
The selection of papers presented here should therefore be of great interest to scholars, since it contains material relevant to both projects, as well as throwing light on their interrelation. It consists of twelve texts written by Leibniz in the 1690s and early 1700s, none of which has appeared before in English translation. Ten of these are translations from new transcriptions made from original Latin manuscripts in the Leibniz Archives in Hanover (plus the texts given in Appendices 2 and 4); the remaining two are selections from Leibniz's correspondence with Johann Bernoulli, and excerpts from his written interchange with Gabriel Wagner, both translated from the Latin text of the Akademie edition. Each of the selected papers is accompanied by a detailed commentary explaining its significance for understanding Leibniz's thought, including substantial quotations from related sources and situating the text in relation to other writings in the Leibnizian corpus.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. On the Infinite [1693?]
[De infinito]
Commentary
2. An Infinite Straight Line is not a Whole [after 1692]
[Linea recta infinita]
Commentary
3. Reflections on Froidmont's Labyrinthus [1693–5?]
[Excerpta et Notae -Fromondus, Labyrinthus]
Appendix 1: Extracts from Froidmont's Labyrinthus
Commentary
4. Line and Time [1693–5?]
[Linea et Tempus]
Commentary
5. Is there a Midpoint in the Infinite? [1695?]
[Quaeritur an in infinito detur Medium]
Commentary
6. Every Thing Resists the Infinite [1695?]
[Omnis res infinito resistit]
Commentary
7. On the Incredible Subtlety of Things [1694–99]
[De incredibili rerum subtilitate]
Commentary
8. It is as if we are suspended between two infinities [1695–96?]
[Inter duo infinita velut suspensi sumus]
Commentary
9. Towards a Science of the Infinite [c. 1696?]
[Ad Scientiam Infiniti]
Commentary
Appendix 2: Historical preface of De Scientia Infiniti...(?)
10. From Leibniz's Exchange with Gabriel Wagner [December 1697–March 1698]
[Facing page dialogue]
Commentary
11. From Leibniz's Correspondence with Johann Bernoulli [1698–99]
[Consecutive letters]
Commentary
12. Place and Time, Matter and Change [1705?]
[Locus et tempus sunt continua...]
Appendix 3: Excerpts from Leibniz's letters to De Volder and the Electress Sophie
Commentary
Appendix 4: Excerpt from "Even though nothing in nature happens by a leap..."
