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The Oxford Handbook of L E I B N I Z The Oxford Handbook of LEIBNIZ Edited by MARIA ROSA ANTOGNAZZA 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. CIP data is on file at the Library of Congress ISBN 978– 0– 19– 974472– 5 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America To Sophia Antognazza Hotson 31 May 1999 – 7 March 2018 loving, brave, wise Contents List of Contributors  xi Abbreviations  xiii Introduction  xvii Maria Rosa Antognazza Life and Works  1 Maria Rosa Antognazza PART I GOD, POSSIBLE WORLDS, AND THE ACTUAL WORLD  1. Essences, Ideas, and Truths in God’s Mind and in the Human Mind  11 Massimo Mugnai 2. Theory of Relations and Universal Harmony  27 Massimo Mugnai 3. The Principles of Contradiction, Sufficient Reason, and Identity of Indiscernibles  45 Gonzalo Rodriguez- Pereyra 4. The Actual World  65 Donald Rutherford 5. Freedom and Contingency  86 Jeffrey K. McDonough 6. The Problem of Evil and the Justice of God  100 Paul Rateau PART II CONCEPTS, KNOWLEDGE, AND LANGUAGE  7. The Complete Concept of an Individual Substance  119 Stefano Di Bella viii Contents 8. Theory of Knowledge: Mathematical and Natural Science  137 Martha Bolton 9. The Scientia Generalis and the Encyclopaedia  162 Arnaud Pelletier 10. Ars Characteristica, Logical Calculus, and Natural Languages  177 Massimo Mugnai PART III MATHEMATICS  11. The Calculus  211 Siegmund Probst 12. Determinant Theory, Symmetric Functions, and Dyadic  225 Eberhard Knobloch 13. Analysis Situs, the Foundations of Mathematics, and a Geometry of Space  247 Vincenzo De Risi 14. Probability and Statistics  259 James Cussens PART IV THE PHYSICAL WORLD AND ITS METAPHYSICAL GROUNDING  15. The Labyrinth of the Continuum  275 Richard T. W. Arthur 16. Early Physics  290 Philip Beeley 17. Force and Dynamics  304 Daniel Garber and Tzuchien Tho 18. Body and Corporeal Substance  331 Daniel Garber 19. Monads  356 Donald Rutherford Contents ix 20. Monadic Perception  381 Heinrich Schepers 21. Mind and Body  393 Adam Harmer 22. Space and Time  410 Heinrich Schepers PART V SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL WORK  23. Optics  425 Jeffrey K. McDonough 24. Cosmology  438 Domenico Bertoloni Meli 25. The Origins and History of the Earth  453 Andre Wakefield 26. Physiology and Organic Bodies  466 François Duchesneau 27. Medicine  485 Justin E. H. Smith 28. Alchemy and Chemistry  500 Anne- Lise Rey 29. Calculating Machine  509 Matthew L. Jones 30. The Technology of Mining and Other Technical Innovations  526 Hartmut Hecht and Jürgen Gottschalk PART VI SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS, CULTURAL NETWORKING, AND SCHOLARSHIP  31. Scientific Organizations and Learned Societies  543 Hartmut Rudolph 32. Leibniz’s Network  563 Howard Hotson

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