November 14 – 1716 CE – Gottfried Leibniz, German Philosopher and Mathematician, Dies in Hannover

November 14 – 1716 CE – Gottfried Leibniz, German Philosopher and Mathematician, Dies in HannoverRate this post *Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons If the Germans were looking for their own Renaissance man to compete with the likes of Britain’s Sir Isaac Newton, it is unlikely they would look any further than the brilliant Gottfried Leibniz, who died at the age of 70 on November 14, 1716. An expert in mathematics, insightful inventor and optimistic philosopher, Leibniz had done much to advance the Age of Enlightenment. The son of a Moral Philosophy professor at the University of Leipzig, Leibniz came into the world on July 1, 1646. His father, a respected academic […]