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German philosopher, mathematician and diplomat of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
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Y Combinator Startup Podcast· 6 Aug
In November 1676 Gottfried Leibniz travelled to The Hague with a calculating machine in his luggage to spend three days in an attic with Baruch Spinoza, and then spent the next 40 years lying about it, saying publicly that the visit had been a few hours in passing.