Illustration of Leibniz’s calculating machine (based on the sketch above), featuring in Theatrum arithmetico-geometricum, das ist . . . (1727) by Jacob Leupold.
Featured on PDR in the essay “Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination
Three hundred years after the death of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and seven hundred years after the death of Ramon Llull, Jonathan Gray looks at how their early visions of computation and the “combinatorial art” speak to our own age of data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.
Also appearing in the essay…
Leibniz’s Calculating Machine
Date
1727
From
Theatrum arithmetico-geometricum, das ist . . .
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