'''Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz''' (1646-1716) was a [[Christian]] [[German]] [[Polymath|polymath]] famous for his contributions to [[mathematics]] and [[philosophy]]. He was a major intellectual force in the 17th and 18th centuries, and is known as the last ''"universal genius"''.
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'''Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz''' (1646-1716) was a [[Christian]], or, perhaps more accurately, Neo-[[Gnostic]] [[German]] [[Polymath|polymath]] famous for his contributions to [[mathematics]] and [[philosophy]]. He was a major intellectual force in the 17th and 18th centuries, and is known as the last ''"universal genius"''.