In the closing years of the seventeenth century, one of the most brilliant of modern European philosophers became actively involved in the search for intellectu

Why was Leibniz so fascinated by Chinese philosophy and culture? What specific forms did his interest take? How did his interest compare with the relative indif

Although Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is best known as a metaphysician, mathematician, and logician, he arguably used the word "China" in his voluminous writings a