Which subjects did Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz study at the University of Leipzig?

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Engraved portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz with long curly hair, wearing a buttoned coat and cravat, facing forward. — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, engraving, c. 1701.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz entered the University of Leipzig at Easter in 1661 as a law student. While his primary course of study was law, his time at the university also exposed him to the work of influential scientists and philosophers, including Galileo, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and René Descartes, which significantly shaped his intellectual development.1