Correspondencia Leibniz-Huygens y los orígenes de la ciencia moderna
- Juan Arana Cañedo-Argüelles Director
Defence university: Universidad de Sevilla
Fecha de defensa: 16 November 2018
- Juan-Antonio Nicolás Marín Chair
- Francisco Rodríguez Valls Secretary
- Marta María Anjos Galego de Mendonca Committee member
- Miguel Acosta Committee member
- Jesús de Garay Suárez-Llanos Committee member
Type: Thesis
Abstract
This doctoral thesis is focused on providing a systematical analysis of the correspondence between G.W. Leibniz and Christiaan Huygens. Beginning with a critical study of the letters, we provide an analysis of the debates they maintained, as well as how these discussions shaped the development of modern science. The exchange of letters between Leibniz and Huygens has never been fully translated, neither has it been the object of a full analysis, despite the importance of the figure of Huygens in the development of Leibniz's philosophical and scientific thought, and that the majority of their discussions took place in their correspondence.