[G. W. Leibniz: medicine and the sciences of life: 2nd part: Leibniz as a "biologist"].
Many features of Leibniz's philosophy are a ... "naturalization" of the finding of contemporary scientists. For instance "the Monad", the fondamental element of his system, derives from Glisson's conceptions and Leeuwenhoek's observations. Among others, his ideas on generation stem from a mediation on the Dutchman's and Swammerdam's and Malpighi's works. Through them, he became a partner in the ovulists' quarrel and in the discussion about formal specification. Most of all, he expressed an amazing transformist and paleontological intuition, sensibilizing himself to comparative anatomy and to fossil imprints study. Generation and creative evolution of beings and species were logically accompanied by a reflection on death as being part of the life processes.
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G. W. Leibniz: médecine et sciences de la vie (2e partie: Leibniz "biologiste").