On the morning of Nov. 1, 1755, an earthquake of 8.5 magnitude was felt across the Atlantic—from Scotland to Brazil—but Portugal bore the worst of it. For six catastrophic minutes Lisbon shook. The ...

Gottfried Leibniz was not the first philosopher to think that we live in the best of all possible worlds. He may have been the unluckiest, suffering the posthumous fate of being skewered in the best ...

“The present is big with the future,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz once said, and he would know. The 17th-century philosopher and mathematician developed the binary number system that is still being used ...

While Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s work has influenced centuries of technological innovation, his own influences included Chinese philosophy and divination manuals recorded as early as 1000 BC. On ...

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On November 14, 1716, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died. The universal genius of the early enlightenment not only passed on a wealth of knowledge, but left imprint on ...

__ 1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫ in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today. Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher ...

Earlier this year, [Dan Maloney] went inside mechanical calculators. Being the practical sort, [Dan] jumped right into the Pascaline invented by Blaise Pascal. It couldn’t multiply or divide. He then ...