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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 4, 13
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appropinquantes
per numeros methodo Dietae, sive per linearum inters quas ipsi
geometricas vocant intersectiones, veteres autem locos appellabunt
10
intersectiones exhiberi posse.
Quantum autem opinione sua fallantur illo boni viri, paucis
bostendere operae pretium est, reipublicae literariae causa, ne
ecp decipiatur juventus promissis inanibus, et ne quis
longius serpat, illa melioris geometriae corruptela, quam
passim invaluisse video ut nulla amplius constructiorum hulla
accuratorum demontrationum cur sit nulla constructionum
elegantiorum in quo genere veteres cura sit. quae mens
apud multo
si fuisset veteribus summis viris, andum et paralogismis
et plerisque invento compendiis constructionum
perca ut careremus destitueremur.
scaterent omnia
vitaeque utillibus.
in en re
De prtalogisimis monto non sine gravi causa, expertus enim
egregris
seio quam illis subjecti sint opositi in illos sint proclives
qui otra calculo nimiuu tribuunt. Si Et novi
ac doctrina
s
insignes sane mathematicos, ingemio
hodiena
pollentes, qui tamen et in cilculo algebra versatissimus
a me proposit
qui agoressi problemata quaedam et solutiones suas mecum
alios
communicantes tres vis semper literis ovosmitebant
aliis
et ubi vin agnoscentes a me indicatos
priores non po vix tamen non tamen abstinebant a
paralogisimos;
novis, donec omnes spes suas omnia tentamenta frustra
consumsissent.
Amice quidam cecterntare ingeniesissimus
Abiris nicidot in enteulum qva
per se non difficile quaerens incidit
in contradictionem: repetiit calculum plus decies. cumque
du problema nu
nihil proficeret, ad me accessit, deprehendi statim
egoris causam
eagnt
illo depathendi
sane ita At subsilem, d non nisi ab
possit, qui accuratas omnium algebrae
regularum demonstrationes le
investigavit. Etem promato