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Hannah Leibniz

Born

1620 (age 401) Berlin, Germany

Died

1672 (age 52) Paris, France

Students

Sophie Charlotte of Hanover

Teachers

Johann Albrecht JungkeJohann Elichmann

Known for

Calculus • conservation of energy in mechanics and dynamics

Influences

Galileo Galilei

Nationality

German

Occupations

Physicist • mathematician

Institutions

Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris

Contributions

Development of calculus • studies of energy conservation • role in 17th-century European intellectual life

Contemporaries

Gottfried LeibnizRené Descartes

Hannah Leibniz