Brevis descriptio machinae arithmeticae, cum figura

by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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First edition

Berlin: Johann Christian Papen, 1710. / First edition of Leibniz's description of his famous calculating machine, the first stepped-drum calculator, and the first machine able to perform multiplication and division automatically. Published in the inaugural volume of the Berlin Academy's Miscellanea Berolinensia — the journal Leibniz himself founded — accompanied by several other important Leibniz papers on mathematics and physics.

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