G. W.F. Leibniz (1646—1716) also belongs squarely in the tradition of pansophia and encyclopedism. In his “Introduction to a Secret Encyclopedia” (Introductio ad Encyclopaediam arcanum, c. 1679), Leibniz’s description of “General Science” is strikingly pansophic:
[The General Science] includes not only what has hitherto been regarded as logic, but also the art of discovery, together with method or the means of arrangement, synthesis and analysis, didactics, or the science of teaching, Gnostologia (the so-called Noologia), the art of memory or mnemonics, the Art of Combination, the Art of Subtlety, and philosophical grammar; the Art of Lull, the Cabala of the wise, and natural magic. Perhaps it also includes Ontology, or the science of something and nothing, being and not being, the thing and its mode, and substance and accident. It does not make much difference how you divide the sciences, for they are one continuous body, like the ocean.
There is, furthermore, ample evidence of Leibniz’s interests in Rosicrucianism, alchemy, and Kabbalah.
– Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (2001), p. 184