Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. A Note on the Text and Translation ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Chronological Table liii
7. 1 On Mind, the Universe, and God (2nd half ? of Dec. 1675) 1
8. 2 On Matter, Motion, Minima, and the Continuum (Dec. 1675) 10
9. 3 On the Secrets of the Sublime, or on the Supreme Being (11 Feb. 1676) 20
10. 4 On the Seat of the Soul (Feb. 1676) 32
11. 5 On the Union of Soul and Body (Feb.? 1676) 34
12. 6 On Magnitude (Early? 1676) 36
13. 7 Excerpts from Notes on Science and Metaphysics (18 and 22 March 1676) 42
14. 8 A Meditation on the Principle of the Individual (1 April 1676) 50
15. 9 On the Elements of Thinking (1st half of April 1676) 52
16. 10 On Truths, the Mind, God, and the Universe (15 April 1676) 56
17. 11 On Forms, or, the Attributes of God (2nd half? of April 1676) 68
18. 12 On Reminiscence and on the Mind's Self-reflection (2nd half? of April 1676) 70
19. 13 On the Origin of Things from Forms (April? 1676) 74
20. 14 On Simple Forms (April 1676) 82
21. 15 On the Plenitude of the World (Early? 1676) 84
22. 16 Guilielmus Pacidius on the Secrets of Things (Early? 1676) 88
23. 17 That a Most Perfect Being is Possible (Nov.? 1676) 90
24. 18 A Most Perfect Being Exists (Nov.? 1676) 96
25. 19 That a Most Perfect Being Exists (18-21 Nov.? 1676) 100
26. 20 My Principle is: Whatever can Exist and is Compatible with Others, Exists (12 Dec. 1676) 102
27. 21 A Definition of God, or, of an Independent Being (Dec.? 1676) 104
28. 22 A Chain of Wonderful Demonstrations about the Universe (12 Dec. 1676) 106
29. 23 Thought is not Motion (Dec. 1676) 110
30. 24 On Existence (Dec.? 1676) 110
31. 25 Notes on Metaphysics (Dec. 1676) 114
32. Notes 117
33. Index of Names 141
34. Index of Subjects 142