Lots More Leibniz

2000 pages of Leibniz, much of it previously untranslated or unpublished, will be published next month.

A page from one of Leibniz’s philosophical manuscripts (“The Place of Others”), showing revisions, deletions, marginalia, and binary notation as he developed his ideas.

They’ll appear in a new three-volume edition of Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers (1677–1686), edited by Lloyd Strickland and published by Oxford University Press.

According to Dr. Strickland, the volumes include “314 texts drawn from manuscripts in Latin, French, and German. Of these, 203 appear in English for the first time; 7 are previously unpublished, and 1 is published here in full for the first time.” They are the “first stage in a larger project to recover Leibniz’s philosophical writings directly from manuscript sources and present them in a scholarly English edition.”

There are further details about the project at Leibniz Papers.