Voltaire v Leibniz - in verse! How Voltaire’s Candide mocked Leibniz's Best of all Possible Worlds

A quick, light-hearted, informative dip into how Leibniz inspired Candide, exploring Leibniz’s theories of monads and pre-established harmony and showing why he believed this is “the best of all possible worlds” - the notion that sparked Voltaire’s satirical creation of Professor Pangloss, the ultimate optimist.
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What's funny is that everyone now knows that Leibniz was one of the very smartest persons who ever lived, while Voltaire was just one of the better writers in history. I mean, see en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz