Gottfried W. Leibniz Accomplishments

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Gottfried W. Leibniz was born in July 1, 1646 A.D during the 17th century, in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony, and Holy Roman Empire. His parents were Friedrich Leibniz and Catherina Schumuck. His father, being a great lecture of moral philosophy, Gottfried was very clever man by knowing that he mastered Latin at the age of 8, and at the age of 12, he also mastered Greek. When he became bigger, he wanted to study logic and combine his doctrines with the theories stated by the protestant theologians. With all of those ideas, at the age of 15, he entered to the University of Leipzig and took the course of law. His teacher was Jakob Thomasius, a Neo-Aristotelian, who taught him philosophy during the first two years of his University studies. After 2 years of his study, he dedicated himself to study math under guidance of his mathematical teacher, E. Weigel, in Paris. After learning mathematics, he studied law for 3 years applying for “Doctor of Law”, which was a degree given by …show more content…

Another problem exploded. He decided to quit the study because he was so focused with many things that made him anxious and thinkful.

At the age of 21, he wrote a book with its title ‘Thoughts of Public Safety ‘ and this book mentions about the states of Europe, the actual protection of Germany and that Europe should gather closer and not to use their sovereign power to fight, but to conquer the non-christian world that they are living now, as well as including Egypt as France’s land.
Between Aristotle, his contribution into Symbolic Logic was amazing. First of all, as an inventor of Calculus, that resembles symbolic logic, he discovered the binary system, gave contributions to physics as well as other branches of science, including geology, psychology, with politics, theology, history, ethics, etc.
His philosophical and theological works