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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 4, 13
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Video plerosque hodie qui Geometriam 
quam ipsi Analiticame vocant
dietae et Cartesii cutcunque intelligere sibi videntur
persuasos esse, posse a se. quidvis praestari inductos verbis
autorum quorunm magurum
lartesus paulo magnificentioribus quam par sit Cum enim
a Inductos partim magnificentioribus celebrium autorum verbis
partim successu quem in minutis, ququibusdam problematibus
Mulsi
experti sunt spe sua majorem. Cum enim talium rerum novi
cum
nonnulla
essent, et Geometriae veterum rudes viderentu quae alii magno apartu
ali figurarum apparatu ostendebant simplici calculo facile
deprehendi: jam prae se despicere alios coepere, et abjecta severiores
cug geometriae cura quam veteres secuti sunt, calculo jam
satis se didicisse putarunt cre diderunt
video multos eorum qui Geometriam quam vulgo Analyticam
vocant, partem circa problemata rectilinea versantem satis
intelligere sibi videntur, et de veterum recentiorumque inventis
tenuius et de suis methodis magnificentius sentirequam
par sit: deceptos partim justo audacioribus magnorum autorum
promissis partim successu quem in minutis quibusdam problematibus
experti sunt spe sua majorem: itaque cum raro sublimius aliquad
majora autem raro attingunt soliti aliorum
difficiliora,
inventis fini, et interea blaudiri sibi, quasi inventuri ipsi, si
aggrediatitur
diis placet Si nemo in quibus nemo alius praeivisset
redunt scilicet
problema omne revocari a se posse
eo ut unius tantum
ad aequationem quandam e
magnitudinis incognitae
incognita rectu lna inventione sit opus, quae cujus relatio
ad alias cognitas exprimatur exprimi a se queat
ascenda
aequatione in qua incognita ad certam quendam gradtum
ascendat. Quo facto radicem aequationis quaesitam sive