Ducentesima natalicia Godofredi Guilielmi L. B. de Leibniz Lipsiensis. Jahresbericht der Nicolaischule zu Leipzig von Ostern 1845 bis 1846 - Nobbe, Karl Friedrich August 1791-1878; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 (Leipzig Staritz, 1846)
In a set of publications of the Nikolaischule (Latin: Schola Nikolaitana), the first municipal middle school in Leipzig. This publication celebrates the two hundredth anniversary of Leibniz, one of the famous pupils at the Nikolaischule (1655-1661).
Nobbe was a German classical philologist and teacher, and rector of the Nikolaischule from 1828 until 1866
Contains an illustration of the famous 'Leibnitzer Rechenmachine'. The Leibniz wheel or stepped drum is a cylinder with a set of teeth of incremental lengths which, when coupled to a counting wheel, can be used in the calculating engine of a class of mechanical calculators. Invented by Leibniz in 1673, it was used for three centuries until the advent of the electronic calculator in the mid-1970s.
Contains biographic information on as well as several letters by Leibniz (in Latin) dating from 1711-1716, and Information (in German) on the school year 1845-46 (separately paginated).
Keywords: Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm -- 1646-1716; Nikolaischule (Leipzig, Germany); 17th Century (1601-1700); 19th Century (1801-1900); Biography; Correspondence; History; Education; Mathematics; Leipzig (Germany)