MDDM 65: Mathesis

[Dave Monroe]

Hope something here will be of some help ...

--- Samuel Moyer <smoyer at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Any math people out there?  I find that the Leibniz
> was somehow involved in something called Mathesis
> Universalism...  Leibniz was a contemporary of
> Newton's.
> 
> Not easy to find much on the Internet on Leibniz...

Not in English, at least, but ...

http://www.helsinki.fi/~mroinila/leibniz.htm

http://www.helsinki.fi/~mroinila/texts.htm

http://www.cpm.ll.ehime-u.ac.jp/AkamacHomePage/Akamac_E-text_Links/Leibniz.html

http://mypage.bluewin.ch/marcel_meyer/philo/ratio/LeibnizTx.html

http://mypage.bluewin.ch/marcel_meyer/philo/ratio/leibniz.htm

Deleuze, Gilles.  The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque.
   Trans. Tom Conley.  Mpls: U of Minnesota P, 1992.

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0202&msg=65196&sort=date

Jolley, Nicholas, ed.  The Cambridge Companion to
   Leibniz.  New York: Cambridge UP, 1994.
 
> It appears that Zhang suggests another world can
> exist, perhaps in this blade of planetary
> surface, ...can exist... does exist, simply because
> it is a possibility???

Pangloss in Voltaire's Candide (1759) serves to satire
Leibniz's insistence (Discourse on Metaphysics [1686])
that ours is the best of all possible worlds ...

http://www.ericjonas.com/features/candide/optimism/default.asp

http://www.ericjonas.com/features/candide/philosophers/default.asp

http://www.ericjonas.com/features/candide/home.asp

http://www.ericjonas.com/features/candide/fulltext/default.asp

Opening the possibilty of, of course, other worlds,
parallel worlds, many worlds, alternate histories,
allohistories, counterfactuals, sideshadowings,
subjunctive spaces, et soforthiam ...

http://www.uchronia.net/intro.html

http://www.uchronia.net/oldest.html

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/

http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/ManyWorlds.html

http://www.station1.net/DouglasJones/many.htm

http://soong.club.cc.cmu.edu/~pooh/lore/manyworlds.html

http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0111&msg=62858&sort=date

There was something else, but ...

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