# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1041163592:0496 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1041163592:0496?run=74 # Title: [Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica] Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 166) # Folio 462, page id 1041163592:0496 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=1041163592&page=496 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/1041163592/jpgs/default/00000496.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 43 lines, status machine # Lines: 43 recognised, mean confidence 0.93 # 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. 462 PHTLOSOPHLME NATVRALIS DE Morodm gradibus declinasse dicit. EE cognita cursus positione, lon- Srorrnaricudines Cometx ex obterrationibus collectae, ad incudem jam revocari postunt ec melius nonnunquam determinaris ue Ac in sc. quentibus. Cellius Nrovemb. 27. Obserravie distantiam Cometx a Spica ne, aequalem esse distantix ejus a ctella lucida in dextra ala Corri: ex hinc locandus est Cometa in incerfectione hujus circuli quem Comeca mocu apparente deleripsit, cum circulo maxiimo qui a Aixis illis duabus aequaliter distat, atque adeo in r 781. 543 cum lacicudine australi 43. Pexeterea Montenarus. Novemb. 20. hora sexta macutina Venetiis, Cometam vidit non totis quatuor gradibus distantiam a Spica; dicitque hanc dictantiam, rix xquasse dictanciam Rellarum duarum lucidarum in alis Corris vel duarum in juba Leonis, hoc est 38r. ee 30 vel 32. Sit isitur dictantia Cometx 2 Spica 381. 30, _e C omeca locabitur in = 2285. 48, cum lacicudine australi τ8. 30. Adhxec Montenarus, Novemb. 21, 22. 24 ex 25 ante ortum Solis, Sextante aneo quincupedali ad mi nuca prima ex semiminuta diriso de vieris Telelcopicis armato, diltancias menturarit Cometxe a Spica 8e 28, 1381. 10, 2381. 30, e 2885. 23: e has distantias, per refractionem nondum COr- rectas, addendo lonsitudini Spicaes collcsic Cometam his tempo. ribus Fuisse in 278F. 52, M 281. 33, I 1281 52 _ M 1781. 45. Si dictantix illae per retractiones corrisantur, et ex dictantiis cor- rectis differentix longitudinum inter Spicam sc Cometam probe derirentur, locabitur Cometa his temporibus in n 278. 527 M 285. 36, M 128r 58 ec m 178t 53 circiter. Lacirudines au- cem ad has lonsitudines in ria Cometa captas, prodeunt 18. 45, 181. 58, 285. 22 ec 285. 3r. Elarum quatuor observationum ho- ras matutinas Montenarus non poluit. Priores dux ante ho- ram sextam, posteriores (ob viciniam Solis) post sextam factae videntur. Dic 223 ubi Cometa ex obserratione Montenari loca- CUT In M 281. 36. Flookius nolter cundem locarie in m 381. 30 ue supra. Montenarus in defectus Hookius in excessu errase viden- cur. Nam Comcta, ex serie obserrationum, jam fuit in M 281.56 vel in 38r. Circiter. Obserrationum suarum ulcimam inter ravores ec diluculum captam, Montenarus Cuspectam habebat. EF Cellius eodem tem- pore (id cAt, NPovem. 25) Cometam per ejus Alcitudinem et A2i- muchum locavie in m 2585 47, cum lacicudine australi quasi sra- dus unius. Sed Cellius obserrarit etiam eodem tempore, quod Cometa erat in linea recta cum Cella lucida in dexero femore Vin