Volume 41, Issue 3, 2014
Hans Poser
Pages 132-140
Leibniz’ Projects for Academies and Their Importance in Science, Politics and Public Welfare
Leibniz wrote more than 60 proposals, concepts, and outlines for academies for Holland, Germany, Austria and Russia. Unlike the academies in Paris, London or Rome he intended a narrow connection of theoria and praxis. This should be achieved by his Scientia generalis as a theoretical unification, whereas the aim consisted in a universal Harmony.