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- ↑ The German National Library lists some fifteen variants in writings of his name and surname [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ The Leibniz – Des Bosses Correspondence, translated by B. Look and D. Rutherford, Yale University Press, 2007
- ↑ Look B., Leibniz and the "vinculum substantiale", Stuttgart : Steiner, 1999
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