Dissertatio De Arte Combinatoria In Qua Ex Arithmeticae Fundamentis Complicationum Ac

by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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First edition

Leipzig: S. Spörl for J. S. Fick & J. P. Seubold, 1666. / First edition, exceptionally rare, of the first book Leibniz published, written in Leipzig in the spring of 1666 when he was nineteen, and the earliest book in any language in which a logical calculus is clearly conceived and given mathematical form. Leibniz proposes an alphabetum cogitationum humanarum, an alphabet of human thought in which concepts are encoded by signs —

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