A miracle creed the principle of optimality in Leibniz's physics and philosophy /

A rival to Isaac Newton in mathematics and physics, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz believed that our world - the best of all possible worlds - must be governed by optimality principles. Jeffrey McDonough explores the pursuit of optimality through five of his most important works in natural philosophy and...

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Main Author: McDonough, Jeffrey K.,
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Series: Oxford scholarship online.
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