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Getting
started with Leibniz (Donald Rutherford)
Leibniztexte
in Internet - Excellent guide to textual
resources of Leibniz in Internet from Leibniz-Forschungsstelle
Münster; includes many texts not linked
in this page such as Leibniz's original articles
and older commentaries on Leibniz
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Manuscripts and digitized print versions
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Manuscripts from G. W. Leibniz Bibliothek,
Hannover: 738
pieces
If the link above does not work, try Handschriften
> Leibniz
A
collection of Leibniz's digitized works published
in his lifetime - from Leibniz-Forschungsstelle
Münster
Leibniz's
articles in learned journals - from Leibniz-Forschungsstelle
Münster
A
collection of Leibniz's texts - from Leibniz-Forschungsstelle
Münster
A
collection of Leibniz's digitized single works
- from Leibniz-Forschungsstelle Münster
A
collection of translations of Leibniz's texts
- from Leibniz-Forschungsstelle Münster
Leibniz
in Post-reformation library - A huge collection
of Leibniz's digitized texts from Junius Institute
for Digital Reformation Research
From LeibnizCentral.de
Leibniz
an Johann Hermann Schmincke, Hannover 27. 2. 1710
Leibniz
an Johann Fabricius, Hannover 14. (24.). 9. 1697
Leibniz
an Claudio Filippo Grimaldi S. J., Rom 19. 7.
1689
Leibniz'
Aufzeichung aus der Unterredung mit Claudio Filippo
Grimaldi S. J. (Rom, Sommer, 1689)
Regeln
des Bassette-Spiels - Aus den privaten Aufzeichnungen
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Collected works
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Note: some of these are Vorausedition or
Transkription, that is, preliminary or provisional
versions before publication. In that case
they are not to be quoted - the terms of use
are stated in the appropriate web-page leading
to the work.
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Reihe I: Allgemeiner, politischer und historischer
Briefwechsel
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Reihe I, Bd. 3 (1680-1683) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv,
Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 9 (1693) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 11 (Januar – Oktober 1695) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 12 (November 1695 – Juli 1696)
Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 14 (Mai – Dezember 1697) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 15 (Januar – September 1698)
Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 16 (Oktober 1698 – April 1699)
Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv,
Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 17: (Mai – Dezember 1699) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 18 (Januar – August 1700) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 19 (September 1700 – Mai 1701)
Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 20 (Juni 1701 – März 1702) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd 21 (April – Dezember 1702) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 22 (Januar – Dezember 1703)
Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 23 (Januar – September 1704)
Online version - from Leibniz-Archiv,
Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 24 (Oktober 1704 – Juli
1705) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 25 (August 1705 – April 1706)
Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 26 (Mai 1706 – Dezember 1706)
Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd.
27 (Januar 1707 – September 1707, in Bearbeitung)
- from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Berichtigungen
zu
Reihe I, III & VII
Nachträge
zu Reihe I
Nachträge
zu Reihe III
Material
zu Reihe I
Transkriptionen des Leibniz-Briefwechsels
für die Leibniz-Akademie-Ausgabe
Überprüfte Briefe
1708,
1709,
1710,
1711,
1712,
1713,
1714,
1715,
1716
Nicht überprüfte Briefe
1710,
1711,
1712, 1713,
1714
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Briefwechsel
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Reihe
II, Bd. 2 (1686
- 1694) Inhaltsverzeichnis, Vorwort,
Einleitung, Briefwechsel, Verzeichnisse - from
Leibniz-Forschungsstelle Münster
Reihe
II, Bd. 3 (1695
- 1700) - from Leibniz-Forschungsstelle
Münster
Reihe
II, Bd. 4 (1701-1707) - Vorausedition from
Leibniz-Forschungsstelle Münster
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Reihe III: Mathematischer, naturwissenschaftlicher
und technischer Briefwechsel
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Reihe III, Bd. 5 (1691-1693)
Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover Reihe III, Bd. 6 (1694 – Juni
1696) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe III, Bd. 7 (Juli 1696 – 1698) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe III, Bd. 8 (1699-1701) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe III, Bd. 9 (1702-1705) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe III, Bd. 10
Juli 1705 voraussichtlich 1707 (in Bearbeitung)
- from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
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Reihe IV: Politische Schriften
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Reihe V: Leibniz´ Arbeit als Historiker und als Sprachforscher
Reihe VI: Philosophische
Schriften
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Reihe
VI, 4, 1677 – Juni 1690, Teil A, B, C, D - from
Leibniz-edition Münster
Reihe
VI, 5, 1690-1703 (Vorausedition) - from Leibniz-edition
Münster
Reihe
VI, 6 Nouveaux essais (1704) - from Leibniz-edition
Münster
Reihe
VI, Varia (Vorausedition) - from Leibniz-edition
Münster
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| Reihe VII: Mathematische
Schriften
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Reihe VII, Bd. 3 (1672-1676)
Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover Reihe VII, Bd. 4: (1672-1673)
Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover Reihe VII, Bd 5: (1691-1693)
Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe VII, Bd 6 (1672-1676) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe VII, Bd. 7
(Juli 1696 – Dezember 1698) Online
version - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe VII, Bd. 8 (1672-1676) Varia mathematica
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Reihe VIII: Naturwissenschaftlich-medizinisch-technischen
Schriften
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| Reihe
VIII, Bd.1 - from Leibniz-editionsstelle,
Berlin
Reihe
VIII, Bd. 2 - from Leibniz-editionsstelle,
Berlin
Reihe
VIII, Bd, 3 - Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften:
Mechanik 1 (Akustik, Elastizität, Festigkeit,
Schwerpunkt, Statik, Stoß, in Bearbeitung)
- from Leibniz-editionsstelle, Berlin
Reihe VIII, Bd. 4 - Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften Mechanik 2 - Vorausedition from Leibniz-editionsstelle, Berlin
Texts from
Reihe VIII with scans of original manuscripts
etc. - from Leibniz-Arbeitstelle Berlin
Transcriptions
of some texts related to Reihe VIII by Justin
Smith
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Foucher De Careil
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Gerhardt (Hrsg.): Philosophische Schriften und
Briefe
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Band
I, Band
II, Band
III, Band
IV, Band
V, Band
VI, Band
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Gerhardt (Hrsg.): Mathematische Schriften
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I, Band
II, Band
III, Band
IV, Band
V, Band
VI, Band
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Monadology
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[La]
monadologie / Leibniz ; publ. d'après les
ms. et accompagnée d'éclaircissements par Emile
Boutroux. Suivi d'une Note sur les principes
de la mécanique dans Descartes et dans Leibniz
/ par Henri Poincaré,... - from Bibliothèque
nationale de France
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Theodicy
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Theodicy
(trans. Huggard)
University
of Notre Dame: Leibniz texts - information of
the forthcoming English translation of Theodicy
- includes some related texts; see also the blog.
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Other single texts
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Translations and transcriptions by Justin
E. H. Smith
Translations by George MacDonald Ross:
Comments
on Foucher
Comments
on Sturm
Notes
on Analysis
Notes
on the ontological argument
Translations by Jeffrey K. MacDonough:
“How
the Soul Acts on the Body,” a translation
of a G. W. Leibniz's Anima Quomodo Agat in
Corpus (1677; A VI.iv.B.257)
“On
Existence,” a translation of G. W. Leibniz's
De Existentia (1676; A VI.iii.87)
“Texts
Related to Leibniz’s Comments on his Discussion
with Fardella,” a translation of three
texts grouped by the Akademie Editors together
with Leibniz’s famous notes on his discussion
with Michel Angelo Fardella in 1690.
"An
Untitled Derivation of the Law of Refraction,
December 1681" a translation of a note
made by Leibniz, and dated "December 1681.
Figure
“A
Unitary Principle of Optics, Catoptrics, and
Dioptrics,” a translation with notes of
G. W. Leibniz’s “Unicum Opticae, Catoptricae,
et Dioptricae Principium,” originally published
in June 1682. Figure
"A
Conjecture Why It Seems That Anaxagoras Could
Have Said That Snow Is Black, for Jacob Thomasius
in a Letter Sent 16 February 1666,” a
translation of G. W. Leibniz’s “Conjectura
cur Anaxagoras nivem nigram dicere potuisse
videatur, petenti Jac. Thomasio in scheda
missa d. 16 Febr. 1666 (A II, 1, 4-5)
Translations by Shane Duarte
On
Freedom, Fate, and the Grace of God
On
the Freedom of the Rational Creature
On
Necessity and Contingency
God
Wills Nothing without a Reason
Others
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Correspondence
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| Leibniz
-Arnauld-correspondence - by Jonathan Bennett
(modernized and abridged)
Correspondence
with Des Bosses - translated by George McDonald
Ross
Correspondence
with Des Bosses - origina manuscripts from
Gallica
Correspondence
with De Volder (Drafts for teaching purposes)
- translated by Paul Lodge
Correspondence
with Sophie (Introduction and two letters)
- translated by George MacDonald Ross
Leibniz-Clarke-correspondence
by Soshichi Uchii : Part
1, Part
2
Leibniz-Clarke-correspondence
by Jonathan Bennett (modernized and abridged)
Leibniz-Clarke-correspondence
- a digitzed edition from Strasbourg
Leibniz-Bayle-exchange
- by Jonathan Bennett (modernized and abridged)
Briefwechsel
zwischen Leibniz und Christian Wolf (ed. H.W.
Schmidt, 1860)
Leibniz-Bouvet-correspondence
- translation by Daniel Cook & Alan Berkowitz
A
collection of Leibniz's correspondence - from
Leibniz-Arbeitsstelle Münster
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Single letters
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Translated by Lloyd Strickland:
Extract
from a letter to one of my friends (3 April
1696)
Leibniz
to Landgrave Ernst von Hessen-Rheinfels (April
1681)
Leibniz
to Landgrave Ernst von Hesse-Rheinfels (1/11
January 1684)
Letter to Landgrave Ernst von Hessen-Rheinfels
29
Dec. 1684
Leibniz
to Landgrave Ernst von Hessen-Rheinfels (16/26
November 1685)
Letter
to Landgrave Ernst von Hesse-Rheinfels (1/11
February 1686)
Letter
to Antonio Alberti? (1689)
Letter to Electress Sophie 5.
7. 1692, 18.
11. 1702, 4.
3. 1713
Letter to Madame de Brinon 19./29.
11. 1697, 15
May 1699
Letter
to Spanheim 20. 2. 1699
Leibniz
to/from Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel (Selections,
1696-97)
Letter
to Philip Naudé 29. 12. 1707
Letter
to des Maizeaux 8. 7. 1711
Letter
to Herzog Johann Friedrich 1678?
Leibniz
to Duke Johann Friedrich (autumn 1679)
Leibniz
to (and from) Lorenz Hertel (July 1694 - Jan.
1695)
Letter to Malebranche 2./12.
10. 1698, 13
December 1698, 13/23
March 1699, 1712
Letter to Molanus 2.
2. 1698, 2./12.
10. 1698, June
1700
Leibniz
to Johann Wilhelm Petersen (after 15 Oct. 1706)
Letter to Marquis de l'Hospital 1695,
1696
Letter
to Desmaizeaux (21. 8. 1716)
Letter
to Schulenburg 1698
Letter
to Pierre de Falaiseau (1705)
Letter to Bourguet 22.
3. 1714, August
1715, 7.
2. 1716, 20.
4. 1716
Letter
to Hartsoeker (July/August 1710),
(7. 12. 1711)
Letter
to Foucher (March 1693)
Letter
to Foucher (5/15 July 1695)
Leibniz
to Pierre Desmaizeaux (1711)
Letter
to Remond July 1714,
4. 11. 1715, 19.
10. 1716
Letter
to Lady Masham December 1703
Letter
to Johann Georg Liebknecht (30 January 1711)
Letter
to Father Bouvet (1697)
Letter
to Fardella (1697)
Letter
to Christian Philipp 11./21. 3. 1681
Letter
to André Morell 10./20. 12. 1696,
31. 5. 1697,
1. 10. 1697
Letter
to Thomas Burnett 27. 2. 1702
Letter
from Carlo Maurizio Vota to Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz 17. 4. 1703
Letter
to Falaiseau 8. 6. 1705
Leibniz
to Charles le Gobien 17. 8. 1705
Letter
to Philippe Naudé 29. 12. 1707
Letter
to John Toland
1. 3. 1710
Leibniz
to Charles Hugony (30 November 1710)
Letter
to Bierling 24. 10. 1709, 14.
1. 1712, Jan.-Apr.
1713
Leibniz
to Christian Goldbach (17 April 1712)
Leibniz
to Christian Goldbach (after 5 January 1713)
Samuel
Urlsperger to Leibniz (4 Jan. 1713)
Letter
to Michael Gottlieb Hansch (15 March 1713)
Leibniz
to John Arnold (5 June 1716)
Leibniz
to Caroline 29. 3. 1715
Leibniz
to Pierre Daniel Huit (18/28 10. 1678)
Leibniz
to Jean de Fontaney (28 July 1704)
César Caze to Leibniz (16 January 1705)
Leibniz
to Nicholaas Witsen (2 March 1704)
Leibniz
to Jean-Jaques Boisot (10 May 1697)
George
Smalridge, Bishop of Bristol to Sophie, Electress
of Hanover, on Leibniz's Theodicy (4 March
1715)
Translated by George MacDonald Ross:
Leibniz
to Arnauld, 9th October 1687 (GP.II.118–120)
Leibniz
to Bierling, 7th July 1711 (GP.VII.497)
Leibniz
to Caroline, November 1715
Leibniz
to Sophie Charlotte 7. 5. 1704
Translated by Donald Rutherford:
To
the Electress Sophie, 4 November 1696
To
the Electress Sophie, 12 June 1700
To
Giambattista Tolomei, 17 December 1705
To
Rudolf Christian Wagner, 4 June 1710
To
Friedrich Bierling, 1711-1712
To
Nicolas Remond, July 1714
To
Pierre Dangicourt, 11 September 1716
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Various
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Excerpts from Lloyd Strickland's
collection of translations, called The
Shorter Leibniz Texts : Leibniz
to Schulenburg (1698), Leibniz
to Morell (1698), Leibniz
to Electress Sophie (4. 11. 1696), Leibniz to Electress
Sophie (6. 2. 1706), Notes
on Pierre Bayle's reply to the Questions from
a Provincial (1706), Whether
the essence of body consists in extension
(18. 6. 1681), Letter
to Johann Bernouilli (1698?), Letter
to Pierre Bayle (1702?), Leibniz
to Fontanelle (1703), Leibniz
to Electress Sophie (1697), Leibniz
to André Morell (29 September/9 October
1698), Leibniz
to Louis Bourguet (mid to late march 1716),
Leibniz
to Louis Bourguet (3. 4. 1716), Leibniz
to Louis Bourguet (2. 6. 1716), Leibniz to Louis Bourguet
(October? 1712)
Miscellanea
Berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum, ex scriptis
Societati Regiae Scientiarum exhibitis edita
- from the annals of Berlin Academy
Method
of Mathematics (A preface to general science)
Novissima
sinica - with commentary from Studien von
Seitfragen
Various
smaller texts -from Bibliotheca Augustana
(some seemingly unavailable anywhere else)
Google
book search of all-text books by Leibniz
Google
book search of all books on Leibniz (most
can be previewed)
Excerpts
of letters translated to Finnish - from Niin
& Näin 1/96
Leibniz
on universal characteristics - citations;
compiled by Ralph Dumain
Bernardino
Oriel y Miguel's translations and commentaries
of Leibniz's mostly mathematic texts - in spanish
The
Philosophical Works of Leibnitz. Comprising
the Monadology, New System of Nature, Principles
of Nature and of Grace, Letters to Clarke, Refutation
of Spinoza, and his other important philosophical
opuscules, together with the Abridgment of the
Theodicy and extracts from the New Essays on Human
Understanding. Translated from the original latin
and french with notes by Instructor in Mental
and Moral Philosophy, Yale University. New Haven.
Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, publishers, 1890.
Plan
for a forthcoming edition: Leibniz in Spanish
- Norms of
the edition - from Sociedad Espanola Leibniz
Various
texts in French and Latin - from Toulouse
Various
Leibniz-texts translated to Italian - from
Solidatas Leibnitina (see right sidebar)
Blog
post by Stephen Wolfram: Dropping
in on Leibniz (including great photos of Leibniz's
manuscripts!)
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