谁发现了二进制和算术？莱布尼茨剽窃卡拉姆埃尔了吗？

Who Discovered the Binary System and Arithmetic? Did Leibniz Plagiarize Caramuel?

机构信息

University of A Coruña, Campus de Elviña, s/n, 15071, A Coruña, Spain.

UDIMA-Madrid Open University, Carretera de La Coruña, K. 38.500, Vía de Servicio, Nº 15, 28400, Collado Villalba, Madrid, Spain.

出版信息

Sci Eng Ethics. 2018 Feb;24(1):173-188. doi: 10.1007/s11948-017-9890-6. Epub 2017 Mar 9.

DOI:10.1007/s11948-017-9890-6

PMID:28281152

Abstract

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) is the self-proclaimed inventor of the binary system and is considered as such by most historians of mathematics and/or mathematicians. Really though, we owe the groundwork of today's computing not to Leibniz but to the Englishman Thomas Harriot and the Spaniard Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz (1606-1682), whom Leibniz plagiarized. This plagiarism has been identified on the basis of several facts: Caramuel's work on the binary system is earlier than Leibniz's, Leibniz was acquainted-both directly and indirectly-with Caramuel's work and Leibniz had a natural tendency to plagiarize scientific works.

摘要

戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨（Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz，1646 年-1716 年）自称二进制系统的发明者，这一观点被大多数数学史家和/或数学家所认可。但实际上，我们今天的计算机基础并非源自莱布尼茨，而是源于英国人托马斯·哈里奥特（Thomas Harriot）和西班牙人胡安·卡拉穆埃尔·德·洛波克维茨（Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz，1606 年-1682 年），莱布尼茨抄袭了他们的成果。这种抄袭是基于以下几个事实认定的：卡拉穆埃尔的二进制系统研究早于莱布尼茨，莱布尼茨直接或间接地了解到了卡拉穆埃尔的作品，并且莱布尼茨有抄袭科学著作的倾向。