[3] Consilium Aegyptiacum.

[4] A Summary Account of Leibnitz’s Memoir addressed to Lewis the Fourteenth, &c. [edited by Granville Penn], (London, 1803).

[5] In a letter to the duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (autumn 1671), Werke, ed. Klopp, iii. 253 sq.

[6] He was made a foreign member of the French Academy in 1700.

[7] Caesarini Furstenerii tractatus de jure suprematus ac legationis principum Germaniae (Amsterdam, 1677); Entretiens de Philarète et d’Eugène sur le droit d’ambassade (Duisb., 1677).

[8] Not published till 1819. It is on this work that the assertion has been founded that Leibnitz was at heart a Catholic—a supposition clearly disproved by his correspondence.

[9] In his Protogaea (1691) he developed the notion of the historical genesis of the present condition of the earth’s surface. Cf. O. Peschel, Gesch. d. Erdkunde (Munich, 1865), pp. 615 sq.

[10] Codex juris gentium diplomaticus (1693); Mantissa codicis juri gentium diplomatici (1700).

[11] Memoirs of John Ker of Kersland, by himself (1726), i. 118.

[12] When not otherwise stated, the references are to Erdmann’s edition of the Opera philosophica.