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On this site you will find English translations of various papers by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), including many not previously available in English. The site is usually updated every 4 months or so (last update: May 2022).What's new:On Controversies (1680) newOn the Commandment of Charity, Schism, and the Principles of the Church (1685 (?)) newOn Studious People (after June 1690) newDefinitions / Axioms or Principles of Right (1701 – 1705 (?)) new Leibniz to Ferdinand Orban (27 August 1705) newLeibniz to Johann Bernoulli (30 October 1705) newThere are currently translations of more than 230 texts on this site. The full list is given further down this page. Alternatively, if you are searching for a specific term or text you can use this new search function, courtesy of Addam Bolger: (For search strings, just type the words; don't use quotation marks)Please note: The translations presented here are original and therefore copyrighted. If passages are quoted (in essays, dissertations, theses or other works, written or otherwise) then references must be made in the proper academic way. That is, the quoted passages must be attributed to the author, and the source of the translation (i.e. this website) must be cited. No more than 5% of these translations can be reproduced elsewhere without permission of the author.ESSAYS, PAPERS AND PROJECTS: (in chronological order) *** = new additionOn the Incarnation of God, or, On the Hypostatic Union (1669 - 1670(?))Trinity. Mind. (spring - autumn 1671)The Philosopher's Confession (autumn 1672 - winter 1672/3?)Arithmetic Quadrature of the Circle (autumn 1674 - September 1676)On Polygamy (4 Oct. 1675)Notes on Henry More's Enchiridion Ethicum (spring - summer 1676?)That a Most Perfect Being Exists (18-21 November (?) 1676)Notes on Metaphysics (Dec. 1676)The True Method (first half of 1677 (?))Cartesianism, the Antechamber of the True Philosophy (1677?)Demonstration That God Understands All Possibles (1677?)Existence (1677?)On Indifference of Equilibrium (1677 (?))On the Necessity of Choosing the Best (1677?)That Not All Possibles Attain Existence (1677)On the Obligation to Believe (1st half of 1677?)Notes On Henry More's The Immortality of The Soul (Jan. 1677 - Jan. 1678?)The Distinction of Mind And Body (early 1677 - early 1678?)Inopportune Reflections on Human Misery (1677-1716?)How the Soul Acts on the Body (early 1677 - early 1678?)The Axiom: Nothing is in the Intellect That Was Not in the Senses (October 1677 – December 1678 (?))On Distinct Perception (Oct. 1677 - Dec. 1678 (?))On Spiritual Exercises (November 1677)A New Observation about the Way of Testing Whether a Number is Prime (February 1678)On Proving Divine Existence (1678-1679 (?))The Views of Socrates Opposed to the New Stoics and Epicureans (1678 - 1680 (?))Analysis Of Abbé Lanion's Meditations on Metaphysics (summer 1678 - winter 1680/1681?)On Natural Law (summer 1678 - winter 1680/1)Algebra and Arithmetic (1679 (?))The Physical Origin of Circumcision (1679 - 1685 (?))On an Instrument or Great Art of Thinking (March - April 1679 (?))On Controversies (1680) ***On Public Happiness (1680?)Idolatries Revived Among Christians (1680 – 1684 (?))On Freedom and Grace (summer 1680 - summer 1684?)On Necessity and Contingency (summer 1680 - summer 1684?)Essay on the Number of Men (1683 (?))On Consciousness and Memory (1683-5(?))On What Is Absurd, False, and Problematic In Descartes (1683-1685 (?))On the Animal's Soul (1683 - 1685?)On the Dogma of the Trinity in the Fathers and the Scholastics (1683 - spring 1698)Divisions (summer 1683 - winter 1685/6 (?)Pleasure. An Observation Against Descartes (summer 1683 - winter 1685/1686?)On the Cartesian Method of Doubt (1684 - 1698 (?))Notes and comments on Brueys' Examination of the Reasons Which Gave Rise to the Separation of Protestants (first half of March 1684)Notes On Malebranche's Treatise on Nature and Grace (May 1684 - end 1684?)On the Commandment of Charity, Schism, and the Principles of the Church (1685 (?)) ***Brief Preparatory Remarks in Relation to Apologetic Works (1685) Definitions (1685-1696?)Theological Propositions (autumn 1685 - spring 1686 (?))On Fortifying Against Dissipation of the Soul (winter 1685/1686 (?))On Rejecting the Particular Will of God (winter 1685/1686 (?))A Vindication of Divine Justice and Human Freedom (early 1686 (?))On The General Relation of All Things (Apr. - Oct. 1686 (?))Plus Ultra (April - October 1686 (?))Account of Two Seventeenth-Century Jews who Wrote about Religion (1688 - 1695 (?))On Symbols and the Characteristic Art (summer 1688 (?))Body Is Not a Substance (Mar. 1689 - Mar. 1690 (?))On the Cessation of Distinct Thoughts Without the Extinction of the Soul (Mar. 1689 - Mar. 1690 (?))On the System of Occasional Causes (Mar. 1689 - Mar. 1690 (?))The Origin of Contingent Truths (summer 1689?)Observation of Certain Superstitions of the Slavs (1690 (?))24 Metaphysical Theses (1690s (?))Discourse on Noble Sentiments (after 1690?)Notes On Isaac Papin's The Vanity of the Sciences (after 1690?)On Studious People (after June 1690) ***Protogaea §§1, 2, 6, 13, 14, 20, 25, 26, 35 & 39 (1690-91)Notes on Denis Petau's Theological Dogmas (1691 - 1695 ?)On Mr. Bayle's Dictionary (1692)Reading Notes on Nicolas Aubin's Histoire des diables de Loudun (1693)Aurora, or, the Foundations of the General Science, from the Divine Light to Human Happiness (c. 1693)On Mary Stuart and Popess Joan (not before 1693)Protogaea [journal article] (January 1693)On Horneius' Disputationum theologicarum (after 6 April 1693)The Three Degrees of Strength in Opinions (May 1693 (?))On the Goal of the Sciences (after 9/19 October 1693)Reading Notes on Verhandeling van de Helle (1694)On the Ignorant and the Able (c. 1694)On Reason and Divination (1694-97?)On Man, Beatitude, God and Christ (1694-1696?)On Progress to Infinity (c. 1694-1696)Binary Division (second half of 1694)On the Way of Perfecting Medicine (26 July 1694)The Beginning of the Institutions of Perpetual Right (1695)Review of Leibniz's Codex Juris Gentium Diplomaticus (10 January 1695)My Arithmetic Machine (April 1695)Theodicy (December 1695)Double Infinity in Pascal And Monad (c. 1696)All Things Are Full of Souls (January 1697 (?))On the Ultimate Origination of Things (23 Nov. 1697)Descartes on Final Causes (no later than spring 1698)On Some Books Concerning the Apocalypse (not later than spring 1698)On the Time of Purification (not later than spring 1698)Reflections on Locke's Second Reply (end(?) 1699 - early 1700)Monads and Place (after 1700 (?))Demonstrations Concerning the Immense and Eternal Universe (1701)Definitions / Axioms or Principles of Right (1701 – 1705 (?)) ***Notes on Pierre Bayle's Dictionary article "Epicurus" (1702?)Notes on Pierre Bayle's Dictionary, article 'Origen' (1702)Notes on Pierre Bayle's Dictionary, article 'Paulicians' (1702)On Salvation Outside the Visible Church (1702?)Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle: New Binary Arithmetic (1703)Explanation of Binary Arithmetic (7 April 1703)Binary and the Hexagrams of Fuxi (April 1703 - end 1704)Notes On a Draft of the Second Part of Isaac Jaquelot's The Conformity of Faith with Reason (September 1704 (?))Notes on J.C.'s Answer to the Query of a Deist Concerning the Necessity of Faith (1705)Notes and Comments on Stephen Nye's The System of Grace and Free-Will (27 Mar. 1705)Note on the Rocks Which Contain Dried Out Plants and Fish (1706)On a Talking Dog (1706)Notes on Pierre Bayle's Dictionary, article 'Chrysippus' (1706)Draft Preface to the Theodicy (early 1707?)Draft Preface to the Theodicy #2 (early 1707?)Review of Leibniz's Theodicy (November 1710)A Note About the Light That Some Call Aurora Borealis (1710)Some Remarks on My System (1710 – 1714 (?))Critical Remarks on Abbé Bucquoi's Discours sur l'existence de Dieu (28 Nov. 1711)Review of Joseph Raphson's Demonstration of God (January 1712)What is it to be Polite? (May 1712)Review of Leibniz's Theodicy (July 1713)Some Remarks Made While Leafing Through the Letter "A" of Bayle's Dictionary (May 1714 (?))Restitution (1715)Review of the Second Volume of Collection of Various Pieces on Philosophy, Natural Religion, History, Mathematics, etc., by Mr Leibniz, Mr Clarke, Mr Newton, and Other Famous Authors (1721)LETTERS: (in chronological order)Leibniz to Magnus Wedderkopf (May 1671)Leibniz to Nicolas Malebranche (first half of 1676)Leibniz to to Vincent Placcius (4/14 February 1678)Leibniz to Pierre Daniel Huet (18/28 October 1678)Leibniz to Jean Gallois (19 Dec. 1678)Leibniz to ???: Letter on Cartesianism (1679)Leibniz to Christian Philipp (early Dec. 1679)Leibniz to Christian Philipp (11/21 Mar. 1681)Leibniz to Landgrave Ernst von Hessen-Rheinfels (23 Oct./3 Nov. 1682)Leibniz to Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus (17 Oct. 1684)Leibniz to Landgrave Ernst von Hessen-Rheinfels (29 Dec. 1684)Leibniz to Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff (29 Dec. 1684/8 Jan. 1685)Simon Foucher to Leibniz (end 1685)Leibniz to Landgrave Ernst von Hesse-Rheinfels (1/11 February 1686)Leibniz to Simon Foucher (2 Sept. 1686)Leibniz to Simon Foucher (July 1687)Leibniz to Antonio Alberti (?) (mid November - early December 1689)Leibniz to Duchess Sophie (5 July 1692)Leibniz to Michelangelo Fardella (mid-Oct. 1692)Leibniz to Simon Foucher (end of June 1693)Leibniz to (and from) Lorenz Hertel (July 1694 - Jan. 1695)Leibniz to Electress Sophie (6/16 Dec. 1694)Leibniz to ???: Letter on mysticism (after 1694 (?))Leibniz to the Marquis l'Hospital (14/24 June 1695)Leibniz to Simon Foucher (5/15 July 1695)Leibniz to the Marquis l'Hospital (12/22 July 1695)Leibniz to ???: on Original Sin (1696 (?))Leibniz to the Marquis l'Hospital (15/25 Jan. 1696)Leibniz to ???: "Extract from a letter to one of my friends" (3 Apr. 1696)Leibniz to (and from) Wilhelm Tentzel (May 1696 - Jan. 1697)Leibniz to Francis Mercury van Helmont (18 October 1696)Leibniz to Father Bouvet (1697)Leibniz to André Morell (31 May/10 June 1697)Leibniz to Michelangelo Fardella (15 June 1697)Leibniz to André Morell (extract, 1/11 Oct. 1697)Leibniz to Marie de Brinon (19/29 Nov. 1697)Leibniz to Hermann von der Hardt (21/31 Dec. 1697)Leibniz to Gerhard Wolter Molanus (2 Feb. 1698?)Leibniz to Johann Christian Schulenburg (17 May 1698)Leibniz to Nicolas Malebranche (2/12 Oct. 1698)Leibniz to Gerhard Wolter Molanus (2/12 Oct. 1698)Nicolas Malebranche to Leibniz (13 Dec. 1698)Leibniz to Sophie (8/18 Feb. 1699)Leibniz to Ezechiel Spanheim (20 Feb./2 Mar. 1699)Leibniz to Nicolas Malebranche (13/23 Mar. 1699)Leibniz to Marie de Brinon (15/25 May 1699)Leibniz to Phillip Müller (18/28 June 1699)Leibniz to Charles le Gobien (end June 1699 (?))Leibniz to Abbé Claude Nicaise (6/16 Aug. 1699)Leibniz to André Morell (1/11 September 1699)Leibniz to Gerhard Wolter Molanus (early Nov. 1699)Leibniz to ???, on the Cartesian demonstration of the existence of God (after May 1700)Leibniz to (and from) Gerhard Wolter Molanus (June 1700)Leibniz to Jean de Fontaney (mid-February 1701)Leibniz to Nathanael von Staff (23 Sept. 1701)Letter to a Friend, on the Love of God (after 1701 (?))Leibniz to Thomas Burnett (27 Feb. 1702)Leibniz to Franz Ernst von Platen (29 July 1702)Leibniz to (and from) Electress Sophie (20 Sept. - 11 Nov. 1702)Leibniz to Jean-Paul Bignon (7 April 1703)Leibniz to Jean de Fontaney (17 April 1703)Carlo Maurizio Vota to Leibniz (17 April 1703)Leibniz to Damaris Masham (Dec. 1703)Leibniz to Jean de Fontaney (28 July 1704)César Caze to Leibniz (16 January 1705)Leibniz to Christian Wolff (selections, Feb. - Dec. 1705)Leibniz to Princess Caroline of Ansbach (18 March 1705)Leibniz to Pierre de Falaiseau (8 July 1705)Leibniz to Charles le Gobien (17 August 1705) Leibniz to Ferdinand Orban (27 August 1705) ***Leibniz to Johann Bernoulli (30 October 1705) ***Letter to Princess Caroline (13 February 1706)Leibniz to Pierre Coste (4 July 1706)Leibniz to Thomas Burnett (26 May 1706)Leibniz to Johann Wilhelm Petersen (after 15 Oct. 1706)Letter on the Difficulties Sparked by Reason With Regard to the Compatibility of the Attributes of God with Evil (early 1707 - May 1708 (?))Leibniz to Maturinus Veyssière La Croze (8 Oct. 1707)Leibniz to Philippe Naudé (29 Dec. 1707)Leibniz to Jean Le Clerc (?) (early 1708)John Toland to Leibniz (6 Oct. 1708)Leibniz to Friedrich Wilhelm Bierling (24 Oct. 1709)Leibniz to John Toland (after 25 Feb. 1710)Leibniz to John Toland (1 Mar. 1710)Leibniz to Nikolaus Hartsoeker (July/Aug. 1710)Leibniz to Friedrich Wilhelm Bierling (10 Nov. 1710)Leibniz to Charles Hugony (30 November 1710)Leibniz to Charles Ancillon (12 December 1710)Leibniz to Johann Georg Liebknecht (30 Jan. 1711)Leibniz to Sebastian Kortholt (22 Mar. 1711)Leibniz to Pierre Desmaizeaux (8 July 1711)Leibniz to Nikolaus Hartsoeker (7 Dec. 1711)Leibniz to Nicolas Malebranche (Jan. 1712)Leibniz to Friedrich Wilhelm Bierling (14 Jan. 1712)Leibniz to Christian Goldbach (17 April 1712)Leibniz to Jean-Leonor le Gallois de Grimarest (4 June 1712)Leibniz to Friedrich Wilhelm Bierling (Jan. - Apr. 1713)Samuel Urlsperger to Leibniz (4 Jan. 1713)Leibniz to Christian Goldbach (after 5 January 1713)Leibniz to Electress Sophie (4 Mar. 1713)Leibniz to Michael Gottlieb Hansch (15 March 1713)Friedrich Wilhelm Bierling to Leibniz (20 April 1713)Leibniz to Louis Bourguet (22 Mar. 1714)Leibniz to Nicolas Remond (July 1714)Leibniz to Abbé de St. Pierre (7 Feb. 1715)Leibniz to Caroline (29 March 1715)Louis Bourguet to Leibniz (Aug. 1715)Leibniz to Nicolas Remond (4 Nov. 1715)Leibniz to Nicolas Remond (6 Dec. 1715)Leibniz to Nicolas Remond (17 Jan. 1716)Louis Bourguet to Leibniz (7 Feb. 1716)Leibniz to Louis Bourguet (20 Apr. 1716)Leibniz to John Arnold (5 June 1716)Leibniz to Pierre Desmaizeaux (21 Aug. 1716)Leibniz to Nicolas Remond (19 Oct. 1716)In addition to all of the above, portions of a further 16 texts - offcuts from my anthology Shorter Leibniz Texts - are available by clicking here or the picture of the front cover to the book (at the top of this page). copyright© Lloyd Strickland 2003-2022