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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Physica LH 37, 3
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quaeritur an sit polus Magnebicus, quem semper acus magnetica respiciat, seu in
quo omnes Meridiam Magnetici concurrant. It si quis est in figura adjecta sit M.
Nimircum si aeclinatio observetur in puncto R,, et in puncto illo verticalis declinationis sit
circulus magnus RM, rursutque ale si declinatio observetur in puncto D, sit verticalis
declinationis DM, secantes sese in puncto M, quaeritur an rec Verticalis declinationis
in loco alio quocunque repertus etiam incidat in punctum M.
potus Telluris ponatur esse Borequ B, Anstralis A. Meridianus loci C euit CB
et loci D, erit DB. pono sari longitudines et latitudines locorum D et C. Ex polo B
per  loca C et d describantur paralleli duo, CF et DE, inter meridianve BD, et BE
intercepti datur angulus BDE dantur et aiens BD, BE ergo et arcus paralleorum
Arcus autem CE, FD sunt aequales er dati, differentia scilicet arcuum BC, BD.
dal per quatuvi puncta C. F. D. E. tansire intelligatur planum haperium CFDE
radunt enim haec qualuor puncta, in unum planum. Cmperii hujus dantur
omnia qualuior latera, quia sunt clordae arcuum, quaedantur datis arcubus et eorum
diametris. Ex puncto traperii C demittatur in Ed perpendicularis (G. Palet dari EG dimi-
diam differentiam ipsarum cF DE, datis autem CE, et EG datur CG. Et datis
ete
tu circulo magno
G dtit ad nedus que est chuna ariris cd mapam
ergo et arens et
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