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The Academy edition

Note: some of these are Vorausedition or Transkription, that is, preliminary or provisional versions before publication. In that case they are not to be quoted - the terms of use are stated in the appropriate web-page leading to the work.


Reihe I: Allgemeiner, politischer und historischer Briefwechsel

Reihe I, Bd. 17: 17a, 17b - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover

Reihe I, Bd. 18a, Reihe I, Bd. 18b - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 19: 19a, 19b - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd. 20A , 20B - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe I, Bd 21: 21a, 21b - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover

Reihe I, Bd. 22 (Bearb.) I22A, I22B - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover

Transkriptionen zu Reihe I

Band I, 23 (Januar – September 1704): A, B
Band I, 24 (Oktober 1704 – Juli 1705): A, B
August 1705 – 1714: A, B
1715: A
1716: A, B

Reihe II: Philosophischer Briefwechsel

Reihe II, Bd. 1 - from Leibniz-Forschungsstelle Münster
Reihe II, Bd. 2 Inhaltsverzeichnis, Vorwort, Einleitung, Briefwechsel, Verzeichnisse - from Leibniz-Forschungsstelle Münster

Reihe III: Mathematischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und technischer Briefwechsel

Reihe III, Bd. 5a, Reihe III, Bd 5b - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe III, Bd. 6: 6a, 6b - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe III, Bd. 7 - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe IV: Politische Schriften

Reihe IV, Bd 1 - from Leibniz-edition Potsdam : Titel, Bemerkung zur 3., durchges. u. erg. Auflage und Einleitung, Text
Reihe IV, Bd. 2 - from Leibniz-edition Potsdam
Reihe IV, Bd. 3 - from Leibniz-edition Potsdam
Reihe IV, Bd. 4 - from Leibniz-edition Potsdam
Reihe IV, Bd. 5, Title and introduction - from Leibniz-edition Potsdam
Reihe IV, Bd. 6 - Inhaltsverzeichnis, Vorwort und Einleitung , Text und Verzeichnisse - from Leibniz-edition Potsdam
Reihe IV, Bd. 7 - (Vorausedition) - from Leibniz-edition Potsdam
Reihe VI: Philosophische Schriften
Reihe VI, 4, 1677 – Juni 1690, Teil A, B, C, D
Reihe VII: Mathematische Schriften

Reihe VII, Bd. 3a, Reihe VII, Bd. 3b, Reihe Bd. 3c - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe VII, Bd. 4: 4a, 4b - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe VII, Bd 5: 5a, 5b - from Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover
Reihe VIII: Naturwissenschaftlich-medizinisch-technischen Schriften

Texts from Reihe VIII with scans of original manuscripts etc. - from Leibniz-Arbeitstelle Berlin
Transcriptions of some texts related to Reihe VIII by Justin Smith


Foucher De Careil

Others

Opera philosophica quae exstant latina, gallica, germanica omnia (Hrsg. Erdmann, 1840)
Opuscules et fragments inédits de Leibniz : extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Hanovre / par Louis Couturat,... - F. Alcan (Paris) - 1903 - from Gallica
Oeuvres philosophiques de Leibniz. T. 1 / avec une introd. et des notes par Paul Janet,... - F. Alcan (Paris) - 1900 - from Gallica
Oeuvres philosophiques de Leibniz. T. 2
/ avec une introd. et des notes par Paul Janet,... - F. Alcan (Paris) - 1900 - from Gallica

Esprit de Leibnitz ou Recueil de pensées choisies sur la religion, la morale, l'histoire, la philosophie, etc. : extraites de toutes ses oeuvres latines et françoises. Tome second / [Gottfried Wilhel Leibniz] - from Bibliothèque nationale de France
Leibnizens gesammelte Werke, herausg. von G.H. Pertz from Gallica:
Series 3, t. 1, 2, 3 (part. 1), 3 (part. 2), 6, 7

Monadology


Monadology - translated by Latta and Rutherford
Monadology with running commentary - By George MacDonald Ross
La] monadologie / Leibniz ; avec une notice sur Leibniz... de D. Nolen,... - from Bibliothèque nationale de France
[La] monadologie / Leibniz ; publ. d'après les ms. et accompagnée d'éclaircissements par Emile Boutroux. Suivi d'une Note sur les principes de la mécanique dans Descartes et dans Leibniz / par Henri Poincaré,... - from Bibliothèque nationale de France
Leibniz : la monadologie / avec étude et notes [de] Clodius Piat,... - from Bibliothèque nationale de France

Theodicy

Theodicy (trans. Huggard)
New Essays

New Essays on Human Understanding (1714) - modernized translation by Jonathan Bennett
Leibniz : "nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain"
/ [éd.] par J.-H. Vérin (Book I) - from Bibliothèque nationale de France
Other single texts

Discourse de métaphysique

Discourse on Metaphysics (1686) (modernized translation by Jonathan Bennett)
Discourse on metaphysics (1686)
Discours de métaphysique / par G. W. Leibniz ; introd. et notes par H. Lestienne,... ; préf. de A. Penjon,... - from Bibliothèque nationale de France

De ipsa natura

Nature itself
(1698) (modernized translation by Jonathan Bennett)
De ipsa natura - from Wikisource

Meditationes de cognitatione, veritate et ideis

Meditations on knowledge, truth, and ideas (1684) (modernized translation by Jonathan Bennett)
Meditationes de cognitione, veritate et idels, Edited and commentary by Georg Christoph Stellwagen, 1740
Mietiskelyjä tiedosta, totuudesta ja ideoista (in finnish) - by Markku Roinila & Jyrki Siukonen

Modernized translations by Jonathan Bennett:

Contingency (1686)
First truths (1686)
New system (1695)

Translations and transcriptions by Justin E. H. Smith

A Method for Instituting a New, Invincible Militia (includes the original latin transcription)
De animalibus (1672-6) - transcription by Justin Smith
De Methodo botanica - transcription by Justin Smith, his translation in English (Letter to A. C. Gackenholtz, Doctor of Medicine. On Botanical Method)
Corpus hominis et uniuscujusque animalis Machina est quædam (1680-82) - transcription by Justin Smith, his translation in English The Human Body is a Sort of Machine
De causis et curatione febrium (1704-5) - transcription by Justin Smith

Translations by Lloyd Strickland

Über die polygamie (1675) (On polygamy)
On the necessity of choosing the best (De necessitate eligendi optimum) 1677?
The Origin of contingent truths (Origo veritatum contingentium)
The author of sin (Le auteur de peché)
Mantissa codicis juris gentium diplomatici, continens statuta magnorum ordinum regiorum,... / Godefridi Guilielni Leibnitii - from Bibliothèque nationale de France

Correspondence


Leibniz -Arnauld-correspondence
Correspondence with Des Bosses - translated by George McDonald Ross
Correspondence with De Volder (Drafts for teaching purposes) - translated by Paul Lodge
Correspondence with Sophie (Introduction and two letters) - translated by George MacDonald Ross
Leibniz-Clarke-correspondence by Soshichi Uchii : Part 1, Part 2
Leibniz-Clarke-correspondence by Jonathan Bennett
Briefwechsel zwischen Leibniz und Christian Wolf (ed. H.W. Schmidt, 1860)

From the Correspondence between G. W. Leibniz and Nicolaes Witsen, 1698-99 - translated by Justin E. H. Smith


Single letters

Translated by Lloyd Strickland:

Extract from a letter to one of my friends (3 April 1696)
Letter to Landgrave Ernst von Hessen-Rheinfels 23. 10./3. 11. 1682, 29 Dec. 1684
Letter to Electress Sophie 5. 7. 1692, 1696?, September 1696, 9 May 1697, July 1697, 1700, 18. 11. 1702, mid? 1702, 31 October 1705, 4. 1. 1707
Letter to Madame de Brinon 19./29. 11. 1697, 15 May 1699
Letter to Spanheim 20. 2. 1699
Letter to Sophie Charlotte 9./19. 5. 1697, 28. 11. 1699, mid? 1702, mid-september (?) 1702, 8. 5. 1704
Leibniz to/from Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel (Selections, 1696-97)
Letter to Philip Naudé 29. 12. 1707
Letter to des Maizeaux 8. 7. 1711
Letter to Herzog Johann Friedrich 1678?
Leibniz to (and from) Lorenz Hertel (July 1694 - Jan. 1695)
Letter to Malebranche 2./12. 10. 1698, 13 December 1698, 13/23 March 1699, 1712
Letter to Molanus 2. 2. 1698, 2./12. 10. 1698, June 1700
Leibniz to Johann Wilhelm Petersen (after 15 Oct. 1706)
Letter to Marquis de l'Hospital 1695, 1696
Letter to Princess Caroline of Anspach (1705)
Letter to Desmaizeaux (21. 8. 1716)
Letter to Schulenburg 1698
Letter to Pierre de Falaiseau (1705)
Letter to Bourguet 22. 3. 1714, August 1715, 7. 2. 1716, 20. 4. 1716
Letter to Hartsoeker (July/August 1710), (7. 12. 1711)
Letter to Foucher (March 1693)
Leibniz to Pierre Desmaizeaux (1711)
Letter to Remond July 1714, 4. 11. 1715, 19. 10. 1716
Letter to Lady Masham December 1703
Letter to Wolff (selections)
Letter to Johann Georg Liebknecht (30 January 1711)
Letter to Father Bouvet (1697)
Letter to Fardella (1697)
Letter to Christian Philipp 11./21. 3. 1681
Letter to André Morell 10./20. 12. 1696, 31. 5. 1697, 1. 10. 1697
Leibniz to Johann Fabricius (selections)
Letter to Thomas Burnett 27. 2. 1702
Letter to Falaiseau 8. 6. 1705
Letter to Philippe Naudé 29. 12. 1707
Letter to John Toland 30. 4. 1709, 1. 3. 1710
Letter to Bierling 24. 10. 1709, 14. 1. 1712

Translated by George MacDonald Ross:

Leibniz to Arnauld, 9th October 1687 (GP.II.118–120)
Leibniz to Bierling, 7th July 1711 (GP.VII.497)
Leibniz to Caroline, November 1715
Leibniz to Sophie Charlotte 7. 5. 1704

Various

Leibniz -Translations - lots of unpublished translation to English of various texts in this suberb page by Lloyd Strickland
Clinton Tolley's list of Leibniz's texts available in Googlebooks - very useful, contains links to Gerhardt, Couturat etc.

Jonathan Bennett's translations for students (principles of translation here)

Freedom and possibility (1680), Meditations on knowledge, truth, and ideas (1684), Contingency (1686), First truths (1686), Discourse on metaphysics (1686), Real-life dialogue on human freedom and the origin of evil (1695), Essay on dynamics (1695), New system (1695), The ultimate origin of things (1697), Nature itself (1698), Making the case for God (1710), Principles of nature and grace (1714), Monadology (1714), New Essays on Human Understanding , Leibniz-Clarke-correspondence , All these texts

Donald Rutherford's translations : Leibniz's philosophical dream, On genorosity, Reflections on the soul of the beasts and Monadology (originally translated by Robert Latta), A Conjecture Why It Seems That Anaxagoras Could Have Said That Snow Is Black (1666), A Unitary Principle of Optics, Catoptrics, and Dioptrics (1682) - Translated by Jeffrey K. McDonough

Texts in French from Association des Bibliophiles Universels : contains Drôle de pensee, Monadologie, Théodicée (parts) and diverses letters and papers

Miscellanea Berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum, ex scriptis Societati Regiae Scientiarum exhibitis edita - from the annals of Berlin Academy

Method of Mathematics (A preface to general science)
Novissima sinica - with commentary from Studien von Seitfragen
Various smaller texts -from Bibliotheca Augustana (some seemingly unavailable anywhere else)
Google book search of all-text books by Leibniz
Google book search of all books on Leibniz (most can be previewed)
Excerpts of letters translated to Finnish - from Niin & Näin 1/96
Leibniz on universal characteristics - citations; compiled by Ralph Dumain
Bernardino Oriel y Miguel's translations and commentaries of Leibniz's mostly mathematic texts - in spanish
The Philosophical Works of Leibnitz. Comprising the Monadology, New System of Nature, Principles of Nature and of Grace, Letters to Clarke, Refutation of Spinoza, and his other important philosophical opuscules, together with the Abridgment of the Theodicy and extracts from the New Essays on Human Understanding. Translated from the original latin and french with notes by Instructor in Mental and Moral Philosophy, Yale University. New Haven. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, publishers, 1890.