This introductory chapter of the book lays out the basic motivation and goals of the book. The chapter develops along the lines of outlining the fundamental idea for a systematic interpretation of Leibniz’s dynamics project, provides a brief chronology of Leibniz’s engagement with the project and explains some historiographical choices made in the periodization of the texts of the dynamics.
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Tho, T. (2017). Introduction, Chronology and Historiography. In Studies in History and Philosophy of Science(Netherlands) (Vol. 46, pp. 1–14). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59055-4_1
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