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CURIOSITY AND CONCILIATION: A NEW LEIBNIZ BIOGRAPHY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2012

CATHERINE WILSON
CATHERINE WILSON*
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Department of Philosophy, University of York E-mail: c.wilson@abdn.ac.uk
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Modern Intellectual History , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , August 2012 , pp. 409 - 421
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