文档介绍：Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
© 2012 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The Polymath Who Brought
Us Calculus
M. B. W. Tent
© 2012 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Cover images: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, courtesy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Niedersäschische Lan-
desbibliothek, Hannover; Leibniz’s Staffelwalze (his mechanical calculator), courtesy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Bibliothek, Niedersäschische Landesbibliothek, Hannover; medal celebrating Leibniz’s invention of binary arithmetic,
photograph by the author; photograph of the author by Mary Gray Hunter.
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