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  • The second type is characterized by Leibnitz’s saying that he would run even after a deadly enemy if he could learn something from him.

    Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

  • The second type is characterized by Leibnitz’s saying that he would run even after a deadly enemy if he could learn something from him.

    Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

  • The second type is characterized by Leibnitz’s saying that he would run even after a deadly enemy if he could learn something from him.

    Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

  • Newton himself, in a later edition of the "Principia," struck out the generous recognition of genius recorded above, and joined in terming Leibnitz an impostor,

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

  • Mr. M'Lean said, 'the irreligious part;' and proceeded to talk of Leibnitz's controversy with Clarke, calling Leibnitz a great man.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Then he attacks the notion of Leibnitz of a liquid globe, in which all mineral substances were precipitated tumultuously, replacing this idea by his chemical notion of the origin of the crystalline and volcanic rocks.

    Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work 1872

  • So that the idea of Leibnitz, and of Bonnet, that animals form a great scale of being, in which there are a series of gradations from the most complicated form to the lowest and simplest; that idea, though not exactly in the form in which it was propounded by those philosophers, turns out to be substantially correct.

    Science & Education Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • On reading over again the extraordinary works of such mystic writers as Swedenborg, Saint-Martin, etc., who have studied the relations of science with the infinite, and the writings of the finest geniuses in natural history, such as Leibnitz, Buffon,

    Balzac 2003

  • Mr M’Lean said, ‘the irreligious part’; and proceeded to talk of Leibnitz’s controversy with Clarke, calling Leibnitz a great man.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • Other great men had also appeared, such as Leibnitz and Huyghens; and it became very clear that the methods of investigation which had borne such fruit in the days of Galileo were not disposed of completely by his unwilling recantation; it became very clear that the new civilization which was dawning upon Europe was not destined to the rude fate which had overwhelmed the brilliant scientific achievements of the Spanish Moors of a half century before.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various

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