摘要：This article discusses the way that the German philosopher and
mathematician Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) made a number of significant
contributions to geography. In outlining his contributions as a geologist,
palaeontologist, biologist, historian, political theorist and geopolitician,
it challenges the straightforward way he is read in geography. Particular
focus is on his Protogaea, the Annales Imperii and the
Consilium Aegyptiacum, respectively a pre-history of the earth, a
chronology of German nobility in the Middle Ages, and a military-strategic
proposal to King Louis XIV. Making use of contemporary debates about ways of
reading Leibniz, and drawing on a wide range of his writings, the article
indicates just how much remains to be discovered about his
work.
