Document Type
Book Review
Program
History (Pitzer)
Publication Date
6-2010
Keywords
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Librarian, Library, Biography
Abstract
This is a book review of Zwischen Fürstenwillkür und Menschheitswohl: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz als Bibliothekar, edited by Karin Hartbecke. The title of the volume—at least the part before the colon—is misleading. This is not really a book about the tension between human welfare and absolute monarchy. It is instead an extended effort to reconstruct Leibniz's practices of categorizing and acquiring books; it is also about the relationship between Leibniz's written reflections on categorizing books and those practices.
Rights Information
© 2010 The History of Science Society
DOI
10.1086/655715
Recommended Citation
Wakefield, Andre. "Review: Karin Hartbecke (Editor). Zwischen Fürstenwillkür und Menschheitswohl: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz als Bibliothekar." Isis 101.2 (June 2010): 429-430. doi: 10.1086/655715
