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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 15, 6
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mensium similem esso rationem quia luna ad
easdem semper fixas eodem modo redit.
Ad hoc institutum tabulae peculiares usui
nautico accommodatae fieri possunt quae mon
strent, qua mensis lunaris nontantum die
horaque lunari, sed ex minuto minimum
primo, quis sit louis lunae in splara fixarum.
Ad candem rem maclina fieri vel potios ad
Sphaeram nostram artificialem, eo quo sapradixi
modo dispositam accommodari potest, in qua
Luna artificialis fodiacum spharae suomodo
percurrens, sphara ipsa interim suo motu pro
prio revolata, monstrabit, e(modo sphara ipsa
Odefiniet
satis ampla sit), ad minuta prima usque, si
volumus, quo minuto primo, quo in loco coeli
versetur Luna. Nicopus es machinam
istam in Naui esse, sufficeret eum, qui prima
tabulam ejusmodi lorarum lunae, sine calculi
molestia de nouo condere, aut tatulas ab
aliis conditas examinare vellet, talemmachi.
nam ante oculos habere,  quidquidin ea
deminulo n minutum observat intabulam
referre saspenso cum volet et postea rursus
cum volet liberato motu maclinae, prout
observandam.
ei otium adeam remerit, aut non erit.
Idqu exactissime poterit haberi, si machina
inloco stabili posita, pendulo animetur.
Imo nec Lomine opus erit machinam
continuo observante: fieri enim poterit.
ut ipsamet Luna artificialis punctis qui
busdam coloratis quolibet minuto, locum
Juum in splaera artificiali monstret
dua tabulas astronomicas condendi aut
examinandi ratione sane nonasatis
ad usum Geographicum accurata, nnhil facile
eregantius jucundiusque fingi potest
x his intelligi potest non in Luna tantum
sed de i omgets ble etisias denest
timpressis