Word: leibniz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the mathematician Leibniz started to explain the mathematics of the infinitely small to Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia, she said she already understood it from watching the behavior of her courtiers...
Queen Caroline was a tireless walker, card player, controversialist. She appreciated Dean Swift, she corresponded with the Philosopher Leibniz, she promoted the great Berkeley to his Irish bishopric. Her courage was not fully known until she was on her death bed, when the King learned what she had desperately kept secret from him: that she had suffered for years from a painful umbilical rupture. An operation brought on gangrene. Quennell's re-creation of these full-blooded, uncomfortable people is nowhere more penetrating than in his account of the Queen's noble and terrible last days, during which...