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Noun: Leibniz  lIb-nits
  1. German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
    - Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz

See also: Leibnizian

Type of: mathematician, philosopher

Encyclopedia: Leibniz Leibniz, System of