# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068531:0174 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068531:0174?run=74 # Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Optik und Dioptrik LH 37, 2 # Folio 87v, page id 00068531:0174 # Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 88r); this page is its left half. # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=00068531&page=174 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/00068531/jpgs/default/00000174.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 31 lines, status machine # Lines: 31 recognised, mean confidence 0.91 # 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. poterit tantae magnitudinis telsseoxium, et majus fortassis hactenus nullum factum fuerit, ac inposterum cum fractu fieri poterit, (nam at postua dicetur, focuo hujus altra 34 podes ab exteriore aitri suporsicie distabit.) Sit que diamceuur apirtura aqualis u digitorun mensurae, incident omnes radii in axem intra longitudinem lineola qua minor erit quam 94 podum 12, hoc est 144 digili, qua lougitudo 994 rospedu tanci Cioculi fortasse non considerata digna judicabitur, praesertim si inter alia etiam consideritur tum ejus foci diametrum fore a Sed notandum est segmenta haec circulorum qua ad tranq situm radiorum detecta relinquimus, multo majora esse 6 Vitro, ac duorum, pluriumue compositione, radios ab uno punao vementes, aut parallelos omnibus modis specillis infernientibus deflutere possimus: cum id in Di optrica u. praditi d. Cartes, in figuris Ellipticis, aut jam ostensum sit, aut por facile ex ut qua ibi habentur, deduci possit. Superuacnumpraterea foret describere quales figuras conspicilla tam senibus quam myopibus insernientia; micoscopia ano tantum autpluribus vitris constantia ea etc sequum id sign ( vertendo prorhum sine dextrorsum. segnuon