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Epistemological Warfare in Science and Statecraft

The History of Epistemological Warfare in Science: Leibniz vs. Newton; Kepler vs. Galileo and Fludd; the Renaissance vs. the Enlightenment

• How The Dead Souls of Venice Corrupted Science, by Webster Tarpley, Conference Speech given September 4, 1995 The American Almanac, January, 1996.
  • Sarpi and Galileo
    
  • Newton: A Cultist Kook
    
  • Antonio Conti, Venician in England
    
  • The Leibniz vs. Newton Contest
    
  • Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu -- The "Enlightenment"
    
  • Another Conti Agent: Voltaire
    
  • Conti and the French Revolution

• Leibniz, Papin and the Steam Engine: A Study of British Sabotage of Science, by Philip Valenti, American Almanac, 1996; first version published in Fusion Magazine, December, 1979.
  
  • Chronology -- Steam Power vs. the Royal Society
    
  • Leave this site to: History of Mathematics Archive, MacTutor
    
    • Leibniz
      
    • Denis Papin
      
    • Famous Curves Index

• The Enlightenment's Crusade Against Reason, by Linda de Hoyos, The American Almanac, February 8, 1993.

• Leibniz, Not Locke, Inspired the Declaration of Independence, by Philip Valenti, The American Almanac, July 7, 1997.
  
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• Emmerich de Vattel and the Founding Fathers, section of Helga LaRouche's Conference Presentation, see above: "It Is The Poets Who Shape History-- The Internal Crisis of Modern European Culture: The Renaissance vs. The Enlightenment", Conference Speech, Helga Zepp- LaRouche, The American Almanac, March 24, 1997. For a longer work on Vattel, read: Fidelio, Spring 1997 issue, "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: How the Natural Law Concept of G. W. Leibniz Inspired America's Founding Fathers", by Robert Trout.
  

Paradox and Creative Thought

• Seeds Of A New Renaissance -- The Three Levels Of Mathematics, by Jonathan Tennenbaum, printed in The American Almanac, November 8, 1993.

• The Fraud of the Inverse Square Law, by Hunter Cobb, The American Almanac, April 7, 1997.

• Mind Over Mathematics Series, including exercises in paradoxes, from Gauss, Kepler, DaVinci, Leibniz, and others.

• Mind Over Mathematics: Higher Arithmetic -- Calendar, Part II -- How Gauss Determined The Date of His Birth, Conference Presentation by Bruce Director, The American Almanac, April 7, 1997.

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