# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00067979:0002 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00067979:0002?run=39 # Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 1, 17 # Folio 1v, page id 00067979:0002 # Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 10r); this page is its left half. # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=00067979&page=2 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/00067979/jpgs/default/00000002.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 39, 2026-08-27T09:55:26Z — 54 lines, status machine # Lines: 54 recognised, mean confidence 0.97 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. fierent universales. Hoc illi institutum si absolvissent, totam nobis Geometriam solidorum sive secundi gradus perfectam deinsigni com- pendio dedissent sed quonam se sed quotriam synthetica nethodo per theoremata praedemonstrata ad propositum eniti voluerant; imirum non est, aditum ad proslemata difficiliora repesrisse nullum. destituente eos Patientia in ea itineris asperitate, et anfractuum multitudine, quae schemata contemplantes, et Conum mente versantes, passim x fatigabat. Quanquam autem opus impirfectum reliquasait, quae tamen ipsi per Synthesin in sol reliquernt retiquissent, iminitabile tamen reddidisse visi sunt quas multis. Nam quod ipsi in solido et per synthesin generaliter demonstraverant conicarum Linearum Harmonias eas Analytici postea secuti re ad planum traducta (quod fateor ingenti labore imaginationem absolvit) Summe nondum exhibuere, ne ipso quidem stri viro Johanne Wittio excepto, qui tamen Analysin Conicam omnium longissime protulisse videt ac promovisse videtur Hoc cum mihi de Analyseos aut Syntheseos comparatione vertu fucient sententiam dicenti nuper Illustris Carcavius objecisset, agnoscentem ad tentandum aditum excitavit qu qua ratione eousque produci posset Analysis, quo synthesin perventuram pro desperato habebatur. Aggressus negotium vidi novis quibusdam (u characteribus opus esse, quibus ambigna si variae signorum ambiguitates exprimerentur vidi iindivisibileatque infinitum calculo analytico misceri debere, quod unum non satis observasse videtur profundissimus, caetera Cartesius, denique modum reperi analyticum, quo sectiones senice perinde tractari possent, ac si unicum extaret figurae cujusdam genus sectionis Conicae nomine; cujus figurae, tangenter perpendiculares centra axes, vertices, focos; abscissas ordinatas tangentes, perpendiculares; nulla specierum Hiparbolae, parabolae, Ellistseos circuli rectae, mentione, conside statim prodat possint haberentur, unde theoremata universalia innumrabilia in promta habea tur suit, et ad so- habenta fuere, et ad omnium problematum Conicorum solutionem communem mihi strata est via vera dici aptio natura aequatione universali explicata aquationibus compre den sibilum