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# Title: Renati Des-Cartes Tractatus De Homine, Et De Formatione Foetus (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 178, Stück 4; Leibn. Marg. 178)
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P R A F A T I O.
Cum ipsi, polquam ea accuracius exainarerint, in-
Cipiantca judicare, si non vera, lalcem magis vero(I
milia, magisque intelligibilia, quam quae antea ilti
Philolopho actribuebant; contendune, uc nihilhdei,
quam Aristocelipromilere, derogent, lire recte live
male, iplum dicere quicquid hodie approbant, ac in
illo Auctore invenm id, quodnecipli, necullus a
lius unquam antehac oblerrarerat. Dicam iltis ri
ris scriberchicnolo, nequeeosacculare, quod D0-
ino Des-Cartes id lurripiant, quo Ariscocelem lo-
cupletane: Optandum enim foret, iltum omnibus
CAC aMIIUM: EF, Cum CEaEUAEUI, OIHCM ONINO
in hoc Auctore rationem eseinclulam, multo latius
Foret, quando aliquid, quod a vero non abhorrcat,
semet bona fide agnorerimus, omnes ingenii nei-
rosintendere ad id in coreperiendum, ciqueperlua-
dendum, se hoc dixisse; quam, uc taciunt quam-
plurimi, et centum, quas nunquam cogitarie, ateri-
buere absurditates; ex libiimaginari, tanto pluslau-
dis inde se mereri, quanto plus laboris insum serint
ad cum in luas partes trahendum, calque aliqua ve-
rilimilicudine vestiendas. Sed quid: omnes adco
propriasamamus opiniones, uc, tatuo ilti Corinchia-
colimiles, in rectam riam reducixoreteramus.
Mc quod actinet, non corediendo terminose
reoulas recta rationis, e consequenternihilhic pro.
Terendo aliud, quam quod ipse Aristoreles dicere
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