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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Literaturgeschichte LH 39
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dracos plurima a Barbaris hausisse, consessi sunt ipsis
met Braci. Plato in Crarylo ipsam Graecae lingua ori-
ginem in Barbarica, id eot Cello- Soythica, cujus vesti–
gia hodie in Termanica maxime supersunt quaerendam
aveuit. et inter alia e
er ignii mahifeote eot Ternanicum
maliaque id genus innumera viri docti notavere
Baxrea chib  ferepont
Literae a phoenicis per Cadmum ad Bracos sunt translata
Phoeniceo primi famae si credimus ausi
Mansuram rudibui vocem signare figurio.
Graeci
Geometriam, ab Aegyptris hausiose feruntur, quia Nili
inundationibuo agrorum limites confundebantur. Inde gentis
industria ad excogitandam artem conversa est, quae agrorum
mensuras daret, quibus perditi limites rectituerentur
Arabes et vicini ipsis Maldaei et Regyptii in regio
nibus serenis versant eo astrorum dostrinam invenerunt. Hague
ab illis Astronomia nata est, quam postea Astrologiiae
superotitiones foedaverunt. Graeci serino ad haec pervenere
sed accuratiorem reddidere scientiam. Hl ipparchus annumeravi
posteris stellas, Cratosthenes is fuit
Descripsit radio torum qui genribus. orbem.
Solon et Pythagoras aliiquo sapientes Brae corum in orientem
profecti inde scientias Mathemativas, Historiam q etiam seu
memoriam antiquitatis atulerant. Hinc Regyptius ille sacerdos
Soloni dixit: hraecoi semper pueros eose, quod antiquitates
ignorarent.
Sed nunc caeterio doctrinis omissis de Theologia agitur
in Ra
quaestioqu est, quantum debeant sharbatis Ghraci, quantum
Gentilium
ipsi adjererint. Ablogia sic intelligitur non illa, super-