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- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionThe New System of the Nature of Substances
- INTRODUCTION
- New System of the Nature of Substances and their Communication
- Draft of New System of explaining the Nature of Substances and the Communication between them
- Close sectionAppendix A. Leibniz Letter to Bossuet, Hanover, 2 July 1694
- Close sectionAppendix B. Leibniz 'Reflections on the Advancement of True Metaphysics and Particularly on the Nature of Substance Explained by Force' (1694)
- Close sectionAppendix C. Leibniz Letter to Bossuet, Hanover, dated 3 July 1694
- Close section 3 Leibniz and Simon Foucher
- INTRODUCTION
- F1. FOUCHER: 'Reply of M. S. F. to M. de L. B. Z. on his New System of the Communication between Substances, Proposed in the Journals of 27 June and 4 July 1695' (12 September 1695)
- F2. LEIBNIZ: 'Remarks on M. Foucher's Objections' (1695)
- F3. LEIBNIZ: '[First] Explanation of the New System of the Communication between Substances, in Reply to what was said of it in the Journal for 12 September 1695' (April 1696)
- Appendix A. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Foucher, 1686
- Appendix B. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Foucher, ?1687/8
- Appendix C. LEIBNIZ: Letter to des Billettes, 4 December 1696
- Appendix D. LEIBNIZ: Letter to l'Hôpital, 12 July 1695
- Appendix E. LEIBNIZ: Letter to l'Hôpital, Hanover, 20 September 1695
- Close section4 Leibniz and Henri Basnage de Beauval
- Close section5 Leibniz and Pierre Bayle
- INTRODUCTION
- PB1. BAYLE: Note H to Dictionary Article 'Rorarius' (concerning 'A great mind in Germany, who has understood these problems, [and who] has provided some insights which are worth developing') (1696)
- [BAYLE'S NOTES]
- PB2. LEIBNIZ: Unpublished comments on Bayle's Note H (Dictionary, 1702 edn.), 1705?
- PB3. LEIBNIZ: 'A Letter from M. Leibniz to the Editor, Containing an Explanation of the Difficulties which M. Bayle Found with the New System of the Union of the Soul and Body' (July 1698)
- PB4. BAYLE: Note L to Dictionary Article 'Rorarius', 2nd. edn. (1702)
- [BAYLE'S NOTES]
- PB5. LEIBNIZ: Unpublished Comments on Bayle's Note L (1705?)
- PB6. LEIBNIZ: 'Reply to the Comments in the Second Edition of M. Bayle's Critical Dictionary, in the Article "Rorarius", Concerning the System of Pre-established Harmony' (1702; pub. 1716)
- PB7a. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Bayle, 1702?
- PB7b. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Bayle, 1702?
- Close section6 Leibniz and François Lamy
- INTRODUCTION
- L1. LEIBNIZ: 'Supplement to the Explanation of the New System Regarding the Soul and the Body, sent to Paris on the Occasion of a Book Entitled The Knowledge of the Self' (1694?)
- L2. LAMY: Extracts from The Knowledge of the Self (2nd edn. 1699)
- L3. LEIBNIZ: Remarks on Lamy (November 1702).
- L4. LEIBNIZ: 'Reply to the Objections that the Author of the Book The Knowledge of the Self made against the System of Pre-established Harmony' (1704; pub. 1709)55
- Close section 7 Leibniz and Isaac Jaquelot
- INTRODUCTION
- J1. JAQUELOT: Letter to Leibniz, 2 February 1704
- J2. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Jaquelot, Wolfenbüttel, 9 February 1704
- J3. JAQUELOT: Letter to Leibniz, 10 March 1704
- J4. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Jaquelot, n.d.
- J5. JAQUELOT: Letter to Leibniz, 25 April 1704
- J6. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Jaquelot, Hanover, 28 April 1704?
- J7. JAQUELOT: 'A Brief System of the Soul and Freedom' (1705) (Appendix to The Conformity of Faith with Reason, or The Defence of Religion against the Principal Difficulties Detailed in M. Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary)
- J8. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Jaquelot, Berlin, 4 September 1704
- J9. JAQUELOT: Letter to Leibniz, 6 September 1704
- J10. LEIBNIZ: Notes on Jaquelot's letter of 6 September 1704
- J11. JAQUELOT: Letter to Leibniz, 12 September 1704
- J12. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Jaquelot, n.d.
- Appendix A. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Jaquelot, Berlin, 22 March 1703
- Close section8 Leibniz and Damaris Masham
- INTRODUCTION
- M1. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Masham, early 1704?
- M2. MASHAM: Letter to Leibniz, Oates, 29 March 1704
- M3. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Masham, Hanover, beginning of May 1704
- M4. MASHAM: Letter to Leibniz, Oates, 3 June 1704
- M5. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Masham, Hanover, 30 June 1704
- M6. MASHAM: Letter to Leibniz, Oates, 8 August 1704
- M7. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Masham, Lüzenberg, near Berlin, September 1704
- Appendix A. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Sophie Charlotte, Hanover, 8 May 1704
- Close section9 Leibniz and Pierre Desmaizeaux
- INTRODUCTION
- D1. DESMAIZEAUX: 'Explanation of a Passage in Hippocrates' Book Diet, and of the Opinion of Melissus and Parmenides about the Duration in Existence of Substances, etc. To Serve as a Response to Part of M. Leibniz's "New System of the Nature and the Communication of Substances, or of Pre-established Harmony". By M. Des Maizeaux to M. Jean Masson, Minister of the Anglican Church, etc.' (1700; pub. 1716)
- [DESMAIZEAUX'S NOTES]
- D2. LEIBNIZ: 'A Letter … to M. Desmaizeaux, Containing some Comments on the Preceding Explanation, and on other Parts of the "System of Pre-established Harmony, etc."', Hanover, 8 July 1711
- [DESMAIZEAUX'S NOTE]
- Appendix A. DESMAIZEAUX: Preface (dated 27 October 1719) to Recueil (1720)
- Appendix B. DESMAIZEAUX: 'Letter to M. l'Abbé Conti, Containing the Explanation of a Passage from Hippocrates' (1718; pub. 1720)
- Appendix C. LEIBNIZ: Letter to Samuel Masson, 21 August 1716
- Close section10 Leibniz and René Joseph de Tournemine
- INTRODUCTION
- T1. DE TOURNEMINE: 'Conjectures on the Union of the Soul and the Body, by Father Tournemine' (Mémoires de Trévoux, May 1703)
- T2. LEIBNIZ: Extract from 'Comment on an article in the Mémoires de Trévoux for March 1704' (1708)
- T3. DE TOURNEMINE: 'Father Tournemine's Reply' (Mémoires de Trévoux, March 1708)
- Close section End Matter