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A video about Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz from Entelgraf. Enjoy watching. We can easily find the roots of Leibniz's interest in science in the early years of his life. He was the child of a family that was closely involved with the academic world. His father, Friedrich, was teaching moral philosophy at the University of Leipzig. Unfortunately, his father died when Gottfried was only 6 years old. However, he left all his books to his family and son. This was a great legacy for Gottfried, whose interest in these books increased as he grew up. Leibniz, who showed his great appetite for learning and acquiring new knowledge from his childhood, learned Latin at the age of 8 and Ancient Greek at the age of 12. Moreover, he did this mostly by studying on his own, without anyone's help. Of course, the young genius was not only shown in front of the library in his home. In 1661, when he was only 14 years old, he applied to the University of Leipzig and was accepted. There, he received extensive training in philosophy and law. He also had the opportunity to become acquainted in detail with the ideas of masters who deeply shook the history of philosophy, such as Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and René Descartes. Particularly influenced by Descartes' thoughts and the fields he worked on, Leibniz began to think and conduct research on the essence of matter and the dynamics based on cause-effect relationships in the universe...