# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com
# Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068312:0002
# Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068312:0002?run=74
# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 3, 8 D (shelfmark LH 1, 3, 8d)
# Folio 1v, page id 00068312:0002
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 2r); this page is its left half.
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=00068312&page=2
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/00068312/jpgs/default/00000002.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 39 lines, status machine
# Lines: 39 recognised, mean confidence 0.95
# 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.

regulis Generales
nempe primo Motum Planetarium esse in Ellipsi 
secundo
sacus sit sol in cujus Loco sit. Sol tempora autem n
esse ut sectores Ellipticos ex sole tanquam foco abscissas.
Verum cum arearum proportio ipsi aliis minus congeniens
simplex videretur  omnesque ad lineas et angulos potrus inclinarent
metitume natutae vigeretur, quas alio quic ineae petiusatgr
angulimetuntur, ohnes lecoaredrum Ellipticarum varios
fa me
sem per varios varias motuum compesitiones ex circulis deritas deter
explicare
determinatis derivatas, inter sunt conati ismaet
Bullialdus, Sethus Wardus, aliique viri insignes qui Repleri
coepta sunt prosecuti. Noq e eniu ipses applrrebent unde
areatam propbitio nasci passet.
Taudem mihi haec ante annos aliquot
profundius meditanti incidit ratio mire simplex motuum
Planetariorum causas Physicas explicandi une apparet
difficilis habenda sit
fantum abesse ut and arearum proportio spe
ut potius ex simplicissimis mateeriae aethereae motibus statim
nascatur quod hoc loco paulis explicare operae pretium erit
Nimirum videmus, baculum vel axem erectum ad per-
pendiculum in vase aqua pleno circa se rotatum omnem
aquam et innatantes festucas circumagere sic tamen ut
vicina centro remit velocius, remotiora tardius
circulentur, quod jam et ab aliis est annotatum. Dono
igitur quod est simplicissimum velocitates materiae aetheret
deferentis in orbe cujusque Planetae decrescere in proportion
distantiarum a sole, seu Geometrica phrasi,  velo-
se
citates  distantiis à sole reciproce proportionales
eamqus circulationem voco harmonicam ostendo,
enim si distantiae sint progressionis Arithneticae, circulandi
velocitates hoc modo fore progressionis Harmonicae
F vera
licete
succedens