The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days PB_Gift_Guide William scours the abbey

William scours the abbey

Vanja had one great mystery left: her long-lost birth family

What they found there would set a template for the whole of the rest of Europe in the years to come

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The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days PB_Gift_Guide William scours the abbeyA biography of the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz told through seven critical days spanning his life and revealing his contributions to our modern world. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 1716) was the Benjamin Franklin of Europe, a "universal genius" who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs in most of them. Leibniz invented calculus (independently from Isaac Newton), conceptualized the modern computer, and developed the famous thesis