Gottfried Leibniz

The 17th-century thinker Gottfried Leibniz made contributions to a variety of subjects, including theology, history, and physics, although he is best remembered as a philosopher. According to Leibniz, the world is composed of monads—tiny units, each of which mirrors and perceives the other monads in the universe—with God as the Monad of Monads.

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Epistemology; Philosophy, Western; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm; Calculus; Mathematics

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