FOOTNOTES

1. e.g. in her The Art of Memory (London, 1966), or The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (London, 1972).

2. ‘Sozietiätsbildungen in Nürnberg im 17. Jahrhundert’, in Festgabe für Karl Bosl (München, 1969), pp. 181–2.

3. ‘Leibniz and the Nuremberg Alchemical Society’, Studia Leitnitiana 6 (1974), 222–248, p.244.

4. Leibniz’s Philosophy of Logic and Language (London, 1972), p.116.

5. David Brewster, Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discourses of Sir Isaac Newton, Vol. II (Edinburgh, 1855), pp. 374–6.

6. For references relating to this and the alchemical society, see my ‘Leibniz and the Nuremberg Alchemical Society’, Studia Leitnitiana 6 (1974), 222–248.

7. K. Müller & G. Krönert, Leben und Werk von G.W. Leibniz (Frankfurt, 1969), p.11. Detailed references for the rest of this account of Leibniz’s involvement in alchemy are in my paper ‘Leibniz and Alchemy’, in Magia Naturalis und die Entstehung der modernen Naturwissenschaften, Studia Leibnitiana Sonderheft 7 (1978), pp. 166–180.

8 ‘Leibniz and the Nuremberg Alchemical Society’ (n.3, above), pp. 222–3.

9. The following section is taken from ‘Leibniz and Alchemy’ (n.7 above).

10. Sections 64–9, from Leibniz: Philosophical Writings, ed. G.H.R. Parkinson (London, Dent, 1973), pp. 189–190.

11. Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe (Academy Edition), II.i.108–9, 116–7. See my paper ‘Alchemy and the Development of Leibniz’s Metaphysics’, Studia Leibnitiana Supplementa 22, 1982, 40–45.

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