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Paul Rateau, « The “Drôle de pensée” (1675) or when Leibniz dreamed of turning Paris into a festival », Archives de Philosophie, ID : 10670/1.914cf0...
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In the “Drôle de pensée, touchant une nouvelle sorte de représentations,” written in Paris in September 1675, Leibniz envisions transforming the French capital into a grand museum of knowledge, arts, and crafts. He dreams of using it as a gigantic exhibition center for knowledge and inventions, a laboratory for experiments, where shows, games, and entertainment would also be held. The text was written after Leibniz attended a demo of a machine used to walk on water. Identifying this machine as a “lanquerre,” the article intends to reinterpret the contents and the goal of the project outlined in the “Drôle de pensée.”
