Leibniz’s Correspondents and Encounters about Infinity

In this website we seek to develop a model for presenting Leibniz’s letters and encounters about infinity in a digital fashion. The goal is to make some of these important documents available in an accurate form and translation, as well as present them in their historical context.

For the time being, we seek to experiment with the most useful way of presenting these letters and encounters. We shall begin by presenting several specimens from the Leibniz and Des Bosses correspondence; a sample of an encounter, consisting of Leibniz’s response to Pascal.

1 | For a document detailing all Leibniz’s Correspondents and Encounters about Infinity, click here.

2 |  For some samples from the Leibniz and Des Bosses correspondence, click here.

3 |  For Leibniz’s encounter with Pascal, click here.

4 |  For  correspondence between Leibniz and Fontenelle click here.

(1689-94)
Alberti, Antonio
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Leibniz became acquainted with Alberti, the Jansenist agent and confidant of Amauld and Landgrave Emst von Hessen-Rheinfels (whose real identity, Amable de Tourreil, Leibniz only learned from Quesnel in 1706) in the summer of 1689 during his stay in Rome.

9 letters (6 from Alberti, 3 from Leibniz). Correspondence published in A.2.2.