{"id":4374,"date":"2018-07-01T02:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T02:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesica.in\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2018-07-01T02:30:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T02:30:54","slug":"leibniz-1646-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/leibniz-1646-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Leibniz  1646 : Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4375\" src=\"http:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/maxresdefault.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig and lived to be 70 years old.\u00a0The German philosopher, inventor and mathematician laid the foundations for the modern day calculator and computer.<\/p>\n<p>Leibniz was one of the most brilliant minds of his age and became one of the most prolific inventors in the field of mechanical calculators, building on Pacal&#8217;s calculator and he was the first to describe a pinwheel calculator in 1685.<\/p>\n<p>He designed the Leibniz wheel, used in the arithmometer, the first mass-produced mechanical calculator.<\/p>\n<p>Leibniz is credited as stating the first modern formula for pi.<\/p>\n<p>During the 1670s, Leibniz worked on the invention of a practical calculating machine, which used the binary system and was capable of multiplying, dividing and even extracting roots, a great improvement on Pascal\u2019s rudimentary adding machine and a true forerunner of the computer. He is usually credited with the early development of the binary number system (base 2 counting, using only the digits 0 and 1)<\/p>\n<p>As Cinematographers of this age we understand that our light is converted into signal and signal is interrupted as BINARY NUMBERS 01\u00a0 and stored at camera memory card , computer understands the language of binary numbers\u00a0 combination that defines color,shape,contrast .<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4376\" src=\"http:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/binary-300x293.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/binary-300x293.gif 300w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/binary-400x390.gif 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leibniz \u00a0occupies a grand place in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Principles\" class=\"mw-headline\">Principles ( Source wikipedia)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Leibniz variously invoked one or another of seven fundamental philosophical Principles:<sup id=\"cite_ref-53\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Identity (mathematics)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Identity_(mathematics)\">Identity<\/a>\/<a title=\"Contradiction\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Contradiction\">contradiction<\/a>. If a proposition is true, then its negation is false and vice versa.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Identity of indiscernibles\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Identity_of_indiscernibles\">Identity of indiscernibles<\/a>. Two distinct things cannot have all their properties in common. If every predicate possessed by x is also possessed by y and vice versa, then entities x and y are identical; to suppose two things indiscernible is to suppose the same thing under two names. Frequently invoked in modern logic and philosophy, the &#8220;identity of indiscernibles&#8221; is often referred to as Leibniz&#8217;s Law. It has attracted the most controversy and criticism, especially from corpuscular philosophy and quantum mechanics.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Principle of sufficient reason\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Principle_of_sufficient_reason\">Sufficient reason<\/a>. &#8220;There must be a sufficient reason for anything to exist, for any event to occur, for any truth to obtain.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-54\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Pre-established harmony\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pre-established_harmony\">Pre-established harmony<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-55\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0&#8220;[T]he appropriate nature of each substance brings it about that what happens to one corresponds to what happens to all the others, without, however, their acting upon one another directly.&#8221; (<i>Discourse on Metaphysics<\/i>, XIV) A dropped glass shatters because it &#8220;knows&#8221; it has hit the ground, and not because the impact with the ground &#8220;compels&#8221; the glass to split.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Law of Continuity\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Law_of_Continuity\">Law of Continuity<\/a>.\u00a0<i><a title=\"Natura non facit saltus\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natura_non_facit_saltus\">Natura non facit saltus<\/a><\/i><sup id=\"cite_ref-Saltus_56-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>(literally, &#8220;Nature does not make jumps&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Philosophical optimism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philosophical_optimism\">Optimism<\/a>. &#8220;God assuredly always chooses the best.<sup id=\"cite_ref-57\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Principle of plenitude\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Principle_of_plenitude\">Plenitude<\/a>. Leibniz believed that the best of all possible worlds would actualize every genuine possibility, and argued in\u00a0<i>Th\u00e9odic\u00e9e<\/i>\u00a0that this best of all possible worlds will contain all possibilities, with our finite experience of eternity giving no reason to dispute nature&#8217;s perfection.<sup id=\"cite_ref-58\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Leibniz died in Hanover in 1716.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4377\" src=\"http:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz-death-anniversary-300x147.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz-death-anniversary-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz-death-anniversary.png 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>CJ Rajkumar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author\/Cinematographer<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/leibniz-1646-digital\/\" data-numposts=\"10\" data-colorscheme=\"light\" data-order-by=\"social\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig and lived to be 70 years old.\u00a0The German philosopher, inventor and mathematician laid the foundations for the modern day calculator and computer. 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