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Now unpaywalled — the paywall wasn’t bringing any new subscribers, but it was preventing free subscribers from reading the story of G. W. Leibniz’s 16-year effort to impress Peter the Great, followed by a 4-year effort to obtain from him the salary he had been promised, followed by death from a very ill-advised course of self-treatment for gout.

The Philosopher and the Tsar
Mar 24
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