 Although there are only some very few explicit references to Taurellus in Leibniz’s writings, the nineteenth-century German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872) has suggested that the similarities between Taurellus and Leibniz may run much deeper than one would expect. Feuerbach’s suggestion is based on two considerations: (1) Taurellus’s view of the active powers of the human mind bears similarities to Leibniz’s conception of the inherently active nature of human cognition; and (2) Taurellus’s defense of substance pluralism and creation theory against Cesalpino bears similarities to Leibniz’s defense of substance pluralism and creation theory against Spinoza (Feuerbach 1981: 192–193). If one adds to Feuerbach’s observations the similarities between Taurellus’s conception of immaterial form-like unities as the ultimate constituents of reality and Leibniz’s conception of immaterial, simple substances as grounding the physical world, then Taurellus may emerge as the thinker who, within the context of Protestant metaphysics, came closest to anticipating central elements of Leibniz’s metaphysics.