Re: [HM] Leibniz's "let us calculate"?

Martin Davis (martin@eipye.com)
Sun, 23 May 1999 21:54:13 -0700 (PDT)

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At 05:02 PM 5/23/99 -0400, Robert Tragesser wrote:
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> I've been asked for the source of Leibniz's much cited "let us calculate."

The source is in

Gerhardt, C.I. (editor), "Die Philosophischen Schriften von G.W. Leibniz",
7 volumes, photographic reprint of the original 1875-90 edition, Georg Olms
Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hildesheim 1978.

My notes say vol. 7, p.200. I believe this was in a letter but I don't
remember to whom.

Martin Davis
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