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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Philosophie LH 4, 1, 4a
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de quantitate motus, sed et determinatione. Et determi-
natio ipsa corporis moti, seu ipse progrediendi nisus suam
habet quantitatem, quae facilius minui quam ad nihilum
id est quietem redigi, et facilius (id est minore oppositione)
sisti prossuo et reduci ad quietem, quam in regressum seumo-
tum contrarium mutari potest, quemadmodum proxime ani-
maduertimus itaque licet motus motui ingenere contra-
rius non sit, tamen obstat motus praesens praesenti con
cuerentis; seu progressus progressui contrario; quando-
quidem maiore mutatione, maioreque, ut ostendimus
oppositione opus est adminuendum progressum, quam
ad eundem plane tollendum et transformandum in
requessum. Perinde autem mihi sese habere videtur
Cartesii ratiocinatio, ac sequuis argutari vellet, cum
duo corpora sibi obstant nunquam debere frangi et
in partes dissilire, sed semper flectere sese atque ac
commodare sibi mutuo sulas figuras; quia scilicet
materia distinguitur afigura, nec materia materiae, sed
figura figurae contraria est; et quantitas materiae seruari
in corpore potest, mutata figuca, atque hinc proinde
magnitudine ejusdem corporis nunquam imminuta
figuram solam mutari debere condludat. Si consideras-
set Cartesius corpus omne incurrens in aliud antequam
reflectatur, a progressu suo remittere deinde sisti, actum
demum reflecti, atque ita non per sattum sed per
gradus ab vna determinatione ad oppositam transire
alias nobis motuum regulas constituisset. Sciendum
errim est omne corpus ut cunque duoum, flexibile
aliquomolo et elasticum esse ad instac pilae ventom-
flatae, quae vel ipsam et illapsa in pauimentum, vel la-
pillum in se illapsum excipiens, cedit normihil, donec
im-