# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068195:0313 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068195:0313?run=74 # Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 12, 2 # Folio 157r, page id 00068195:0313 # Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 158v); this page is its right half. # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=00068195&page=313 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/00068195/jpgs/default/00000313.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 45 lines, status machine # Lines: 45 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. Approximatio ad Mensuram circularem Geometrica: Circulo eato inscrite polygonum quodlibet, utoco tetragonum segmetitorum assume unum saguttam produc extria C. continue subsegmenta bisccando. Pimum Trian– culum (abscissis segmentis octogom) est ipsum Triangului altitudine sagibta bas chorda tetragoni. Uet hnic Triangulo addas oa duo segmenta Triangula duo octogoni, ex puncto qua sagitta exit circulos erige perpendientare ad chordame octogoni, t aequale ragitte octogoni, et duc rectam per extremitater ex extremitatibus aloguai tetrago chordae tetragoni per Etjus perpendiularis finem, donec occurrat su sagittae productae. Tuan gulum compreheusum sub hac recta, sub sagitta productuad chorda crogoni aequale Triangulis octosoni Triangula sedecagoni adde primum ad Friangulom octogoni produrtum ad Triangulum Tetragoni. Ita info semper proredendo ticansulum istud semper aequabitiis omnibus isstis Liangulis, et subsigmentorum, et si posset invendi hminas Si scilicet poscessio seu modus progcessionis, hhaberemus, quadraturam ista reperiretu seometricac aut aliter summabilis Ud si pona necesse est differentias differentiarum c sine evanescere Quod ita demonstro, C est finitum (=. K + f finitis). Jam e = f+ f+ f... necesse est ergo numeram nedum de scenden une derescentem et P ex non est tium esse finitum. Mira est haec demonstratio Hnc illud quoque demonstratur omnis seriei finitae pates Caetrum easum esse possibilem ino utitem, infinitis mods ta Hinc sequitur si destur quantitas ipsius e. vel X. estro: cum f. invenire posse nmnerm possibilem serierumdum Aestadim p et fiat jam aliter etea alicusic. af rteta ata s a etc ea da Ca etc b m. t ete ba ba