To unknowingly invent something which already exists.
Named after mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who thought his fancy maths were something new, but in reality they had already been found 8 years earlier by Isaac Newton.
Named after mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who thought his fancy maths were something new, but in reality they had already been found 8 years earlier by Isaac Newton.
You know that dissertation I was working on lately? Well, turns out I pulled a Leibniz: the whole thing was already discovered centuries ago by some German scientist.
by Fenhl December 24, 2013