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The art of making discoveries should be extended by considering…

Quote byGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1646–1716

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Opening paragraph of Historia et Origo Calculi Differentialis (1714) Commercium epistolicum D. Joannis Collins et aliorum de analysi promota, see also Mathematische Schriften, Ed. C. I. Gerhardt, Georg Olms Verlag (1971) vol. 5, pp. 392–410; Tr. J. M. Child, "Newton and the art of discovery" Isaac N.

English (original)

the art of making discoveries should be extended by considering noteworthy examples of it.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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