Leibniz's 1714 metaphysical treatise articulating his monad theory — that the universe consists of infinite simple, indivisible substances (monads) that have no windows to each other but mirror the universe from their unique perspective — presented in 90 numbered paragraphs.
Presents the most elegant rationalist account of why the universe is the way it is — God chose this universe because it is the best of all possible worlds — and provides a solution to the mind-body problem (pre-established harmony) that avoids Descartes's interactionism.
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