# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00067993:0376 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00067993:0376?run=44 # Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 2, 1 # Folio 187v, page id 00067993:0376 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=00067993&page=376 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/00067993/jpgs/default/00000376.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 44, 2026-08-27T14:25:39Z — 58 lines, status machine # Lines: 58 recognised, mean confidence 0.89 # 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. circuli radius ncunferentia invenirs ita rob ea m punctim 59 iiculi circumferentia restlatur d er sre caculo punctur s le ebel esse est problema invenire punctum X in circulo, centro A descripto ita ut radius ex puncto B reflectatur in punctum datum C. est problema Ahazenis, vide constructiones slusii et Argenii per calculum Algebraicum quaetitas, item quae de eo problemate dixit Barrorius; Slusius et Hugenius constructiones dedere ope brculi dati et Hyperbolaese secantium. Videamus an aliqua construendi ratio non minus simplex inveniri possit sine allo calculo. Mihi enim ita videtur, n in examinandis constrctonitum elegantiis in intima intro spiciendum esse, nec satis dicere Hyperbola fieri constrctionem, sed hypertota genus exami videndum esse, quid facto opus sit ad describenda, ipsam Hyperbolam. omissis ergo his nominibus, videndum an multis er adusum incommodis opus it regulis sive machinis ad rem absolvendam. Certe, quemadmodum in amasquasdam fanula Calculo omnia videntur reduri posse ad constructiones Geometricas, ita in mota, videntur omnia ad certus quasdem in machinulas simplices posse reduci, quibus in promtu habitis et inter se punctis problmatum constructione sine calculo absolvantur. Idgerta Ejusque credo in hoc tam difficili bilis problemate dari potest specimen. In centro Aficu sit radius rigidus AX. et negularum in puncto et radii X infixa sive juncta sint extrema rectarum XB, XC indefinite per puncta B, C, transeuntium, ita scilicet ut tam in B vel C. fur huc illuc ire, quam est difficile A ) si ex. gr. XC verticillum tangul in C. fixum in uno loco, sed circa subdem D centrum mobilem; ipsa autem reus verticilliam ortus sit vallis instar depressus, ut negula XC inde exire non possit ubilibet pa E in recta XB, et G in recta AC, quongantur hombi deinde sumtis 1Ep Eita ut XEFG sit parallelogaum (su crectangata sive rhomboeides). _ ponatur et jam et radius E si opus est indefinite productus His ita praeparatis tamdiu ciicumagatur AX circa centrum A, donec regula rigida e A impingul in stytum exeuntem ex F. ita enim recta X A et X F coincident et angulus EXG vel BXE erit bissectus a recta AX, (quia semper intell incidentiae HXE, angulo reflexionis p aequalis, quod desideratatur. quod si problemaue duos habet casue amoto obstaculo styli, et post reposito aut restitulae, continuato motu, idem continget adhuc semel. adeoque prublema ouas habebit solutiones.