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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Philosophie LH 4, 3, 5
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Scientia Motuum quam Mechanicen vocant, principia tradere
constituimus. Principia autem esse debent, clara, certa, pauca
causa
et explicandis caeteris sufficientia: Cola ut (intelligant certa
lua sdentiem parianti,  quibus in una quaque scientia constitutis reliqua
patius
caetera ec attentum tenneium animum quatm singularem. Engenii
cim pestulant  fere quodam calculi genere transiguntur
difficultues quastiones
Gectr rga Geometricae pats paucis
Ut enim
ex Euclides adhibitis
admodum. Theorematis, propositionibuss intellectis reducitur
desinunt desinunt ita
acaeri ad arithmetica, saduenntur; et nobis id agendum est
n
ut principlisa nostris intelledis difficultates mechanicae ad puram
sic
non erit difficilius
quorundam com
Geometriam reducantur. ia enim de mad
cuccessu nae fficltus quam de theorematum 
veritate judicare
ars
Et si quando seleetia enumerationum
quam combinatoriam vocant inte ua characteristicae rationalis interventu
sole
non fore difficiliorem, quam problemabum Geometricorum constructionem
Nec ante Naturalem scientiam magnopere  provetri posse
aliter ante
sperandum est, quemadmodum enim Mechanica  Geometria
subjicitur, ita Physica Mechanica rationes mutuatur, et quamdiu
aptas
machinas o hominibus humanis usibus destinatas invenire dit aut ab hominibus inventas
causas rerum naturalium et
explicare
labor erit, frustra divina arbis specimina in naturae phaenomenis
edita exponere attentabimus
Quoniam autem cognita quoque principia non est cujusvis
applicare exemplis ie ex nisi factum ab aliis viderit
ideo utilior  ubi principia Mechanica tradiderimus. per variaa
scientiae partes itimus scientiae specimmna dabimus in  omni
notuum genere lectis exemplis illustrata. Et quiadm scriptores
Elementorum Mechanicorum fere non nisi quinque pote gra
aequiponderantiam doctrinam et quinque potentias, quibus minon
Dis majorem aequare potest, tradere consueverunt acetr
vim autem tensorum arcus autem tensos, et ictus autem et
Concursus, et solidorum scurs
abstrusior
et fluidorum  scurses
falia multa id genus non altingunt;
et
quorum non minus
ucunda atque utilis contemplatio est, ideo
conomur hunc erum deseto pu oroptere, quaerter ad
et ad scientiam
superiorem ac
simpliciorem
revocantur