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[[Image:Leibniz.jpg|thumb|right|Gottfried Leibniz]]
[[Image:Leibniz.jpg|thumb|right|Gottfried Leibniz]]
'''Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz''' (1646-1716) was a Sorbian mathematician, [[philosopher]], logician, scientist, [[engineer]], historian, lawyer, diplomat, librarian, philologist, theologian, poet and political advisor (a Polymath). His greatest achievement was his independent discovery of differential and integral [[calculus]], also invented by [[Isaac Newton]]. Leibniz was the first to use the notation of the [[integral]].
'''Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz''' (1646-1716) was a Sorbian mathematician, [[philosopher]], logician, scientist, [[engineer]], historian, lawyer, diplomat, librarian, philologist, theologian, poet and political advisor (a [[Polymath]]). His greatest achievement was his independent discovery of differential and integral [[calculus]], also invented by [[Isaac Newton]]. Leibniz was the first to use the notation of the [[integral]].
In philosophy, Leibniz disagreed with [[Descartes]]' "I think therefore I am" and instead Leibniz thought that neither form alone (the mind) or matter alone (the body) could explain the existence of an individual. Instead, Leibniz created a philosophy known as "monadology", which holds that [[soul]]s are all there are in the [[universe]]. Even a table, according to Leibniz, is nothing other than a collection of "windowless monads" which cannot interact. This doctrine of non-interacting souls is abhorrent to traditional [[Christianity]].
In philosophy, Leibniz disagreed with [[Descartes]]' "I think therefore I am" and instead Leibniz thought that neither form alone (the mind) or matter alone (the body) could explain the existence of an individual. Instead, Leibniz created a philosophy known as "monadology", which holds that [[soul]]s are all there are in the [[universe]]. Even a table, according to Leibniz, is nothing other than a collection of "windowless monads" which cannot interact. This doctrine of non-interacting souls is abhorrent to traditional [[Christianity]].