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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Optik und Dioptrik LH 37, 2
# Folio 17v, page id 00068531:0034
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Um Expemecum cogirarem, quancum à perfectione
Oprices inres humanas redundare uciliraris necese
lic; Pandencenobis nacura arcanos linus, taciemque
mundi cencuplicante, acque intensibiles illas machi-
na deregente, quibus pleraeque eriam in corporibus no-
Aris in peins meliusque mutariones verasuntur: officiimei
eRepucari, nonnihilcemporis, quod mihiplurimum distracto
exiouum luperest, impendere sciencia canti Fructus; sedmore
seilicet atque insicuro meo, quo allueri cam operam Cudiis
inlumtam pro perdica habere, qua didici cancum, sed quod
adjicerem non inveni.
Occalio rem penicius scrurandihiac tuie: Diu cAt, uc 2-
mici norune, quod mihi in mencem renic ratio quaedam o.
prica metiendi ex una statione distantias magnitudinesque ve-
ras objectorum. ita comparata, uc spes sic ad caelestiausque.
ulera parallaxes, exrendi posse quando e tundamenrum il-
ludcuiinnicitur, cousque rim nocabiliter exerit.
Hlanc cum nuper poliendam relumerem tuiein Optices
inceriora inquirendum paulo diligentius, acque inprimis co.
sicandum de figuris quibusdam; quasego norisnominibus
(quando e resaliis intacta cA) Isoptricas, Dioptricas, e Pa-
roptricas appellari: quibus objecta aequiapparencia, luperfi.
cies ordinace retringentes aur refectentes, denique imago c.
jusdem objecti, tocique ejusdem puncti, (nullius enim pun-
eti focus unus, distancia quaris, nullius objecti unica ima.
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