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Leibnitz also ori- ginated the idea of founding an Academy of Sciences at St Petersburg, which, how- ever, did not take place till after Peters death. Leibnitz lived in Vienna from December, 1712, till the end of August, 1714 On the 2d of January, 1712, he was appointed an Imperial Councillor, having still earlier (before 1692, perhaps in 1690) been elevated into the ranks of the nobility ; he is said also to have received the dig- nity of a baron of the empire. (Joseph Bergmann, Leibniz in Wien, in the Transac- tions of the Vienna Academy, pMl-hist. Class XIII, 1854, pp 40-61 ; L als ReicJis- hofrath und dessen Besoldimg, ib XXVI, 1858, pp 187-204) In 1714, while residing at Vienna, Leibnitz wrote for Prince Eugene of Savoy, in French, the summary of his system, which was first published after his death (first in German, by Kohler, with the title : L s Lehrsiltze iiber die Moiadolvgie, etc, see above). Leibnitz returned to Han- over in September, 1714 He found the Elector Georg Ludwig no longer there, he having already gone to England, where he ascended the throne as George I. prev next |