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Here are some classical readings in the history of philosophy which are relevant to Spinoza and Leibniz, with links to electronic texts of old translations.

• René Descartes
• Meditations on First Philosophy, Veitch translation
• Selections from The Principles of Philosophy, Veitch translation

• Baruch Spinoza
• The Principles of Descartes’ Philosophy, Britan translation
• On the Improvement of the Understanding, Elwes translation
• The Ethics, Elwes translation
• Spinoz’s Works in Latin

• G. W. Leibniz
• The Philosophical Works of Leibnitz, Duncan translation
• Early Mathematical Writings of Leibniz, Child translation
• Discourse on Method, Correspondence with Arnauld, Monadology, Montgomery translation
• The Mondadology and Other Philosophical Writings, Latta translation
• Theodicy, Huggard translation
• New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding, Langley translation
• The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence, Clarke translation
• The Logic of Leibniz, by Couturat, partial translation by Rutherford
• A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz, by Russell

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