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Let me begin with a general remark on Leibniz’s reputation. If one wants to set down clearly an outcome of the priority dispute between Newton und Leibniz, independent of national differences, then one has presumably to concede that Leibniz was the loser, at least inasmuch as his adherents had to defend him constantly in the 18th und 19th centuries. Even in Germany the reputed historian of mathematics Moritz Cantor assumed that Leibniz had tried to forge the date of one of his documents in infinitesimal calculus [Cantor 1901, 182–183].
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Breger, H. (2012). Chaitin, Leibniz and Complexity. In: Krömer, R., Chin-Drian, Y. (eds) New Essays on Leibniz Reception. Publications des Archives Henri Poincaré Publications of the Henri Poincaré Archives(). Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0504-5_12
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