# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068241:0061 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068241:0061?run=74 # Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 3 A 28 # Folio 31r, page id 00068241:0061 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=00068241&page=61 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/00068241/jpgs/default/00000061.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 37 lines, status machine # Lines: 37 recognised, mean confidence 0.88 # 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. Jra Methodus Universalis literas aut earum potentias tollendi. sit aequatio una abxa a +bX + CXX + d X +X et alia as qui Deql + MX + XX aequ. 0. tollenda est X. scilicet multiplicando aequationem minorem per XKX 2. 3X _XX habemque duas arbitrarias cum tamenties sint tollendae, ergo mulliplicabimus potius aequationem 2 per liteo numeros arbitrarios, 2. 3x. TXX. - X et aqu. t. per et et aequ. . per 5 et per +X habebimus tollendos 4, et arbitrarias 4. Rrem ab ouo adiamur oaa +X aeq et 0 aequ l+ X Multiplicetur illa per illa per + 1. seu maneat qualis est, haec per - 1. addantur fiet: a + l aequo. Rursus: a +xaequ o. d aequ a +X et oaequ. l+ mX + xX, invenietur vaeq. (= ma + aa . Oaequ a + bX + XX et O aequ. l + X. fier a - bl + ll aeg. 0. D aequa + bX + XX et 0 aequ l + mx + XX Multiplicetur illa per 2 et per X. haec per et per = X. fiet: +2a + 2 b X + 2XX. Y La fiet 2 +6 aequ m - b 1E1 2b+6m aequ l- aG prbihrariae 2 et 6. assumtae + aX + bXX + X3 = l X = mXX = X . 0. 2a 6 laeq. 0 seu 6aeq m - b - 2 aequ l- a - 2b, c seu 6m sb 2.649. l- a- 2b n Ergo fiet mm = bm - 2m aequ l - a - 2b. Ergo 2 aequ mm-bm + a - 1 et 6 aeqo m - b - um + m = a +L seu 6 aequ 2mb - bb -mm = ab + 1b Ergo inmat bma +aa = la egu. (2) mb l- bbl -mm t - ab 1+ 1t seu mmab= bmab +aab( lab) aequ in Bl - bbl = mnt (= a bD + (2b en +m ba - bb m aeque Et ita porro semperus res reducetur cd. resolutiones aequationum simplicium, quae etiam suisjam constant regulis quas cum istis progressoonibus jungendo non difficile erit omnia desideata absolvere quae in hoc argumento desideriu possunt Consistit autem in hoc unico algebrae totius sublimioris clavis