After pestering me for a while to write the book, my friend Helen de Cruz has been sharing with me ideas to publish a book on the ways the Enlightenment is not this dogmatic, monolithic, and Eurocentric project some of its recent, false friends have made it out to be. I believe Helen plans to center it on Leibniz, who had capacious reading habits. Leibniz didn’t just contribute to the scientific revolution in the widest possible sense, but he also assimilated from many sources and was eager to share his excitement about them. Today’s post is dedicated to Helen with admiration and warmth.
Nice to see someone--especially you!--take a look at 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. It's sort of buried in Loemker and doesn't get noticed, esp. since it's undated; but it has some *very* good stuff in it. I mined it more than a bit for my diss! : )
Nice argument, BTW. I'd bet that you're right--knowing Leibniz!
Nice to see someone--especially you!--take a look at 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. It's sort of buried in Loemker and doesn't get noticed, esp. since it's undated; but it has some *very* good stuff in it. I mined it more than a bit for my diss! : )
Nice argument, BTW. I'd bet that you're right--knowing Leibniz!