Erhard Weigel

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Erhard Weigel (1625-1699) is mostly only remembered as the teacher of Leibniz. But he was an interesting thinker in his own regard, no less encyclopaedic than his famous pupil. His fields of interest included mathematics, philosophy, pedagogy, astronomy, physics, jurisprudence, architecture, history, geography, ethics and mechanics. As a professor at the university of Jena, Weigel was highly influential through his many students, such as — apart from Leibniz — Samuel Pufendorf or Johann Christoph Sturm. Therefore one can appreciate that now an edition of Weigel's main works is being undertaken, including, as its first volume, the central part of Weigel's "Corpus pansophicum" (1673).

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