books.google.co.uk - One of the greatest of modern philosophers, on a par with his contemporary John Locke, Leibniz was born in Leipzig in 1646, died in Hanover in 1716. He was a leading figure in European intellectual circles, and the founder of the Academy of Berlin. His strange, complex metaphysical system established...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Leibniz_s_New_System_and_associated_cont.html?id=UnxU9z779B4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLeibniz's 'New System' : and associated contemporary texts