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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.
dicatio, horum tamen neutiquam certa esse ligna
Quoniam ex. sr. omnes corporis habitus, seltus, cla
mOres, ac in rultu mucationeshominis alicujus, qui
dolore premitur, imitando exprimi poltune à Co-
mado ejusperlonam repralentante, qui tamen pro-
ocereanullum perlentiet dolorem: Sicutccontra a-
licujus Forricudo atque constantia tam magna esle
potest, uc grarem lultincat dolorem, nequetamen
quicquam externis lionis indicet; quemadmodum
deMario narratur, qui poltquam pastus fuisser libi
varicem exscindi atque auterri, ab sque ullo senlus
doloris indicio; quando ad alcerum auferendum le
accinserent Chirurgi, Cinculla perturbatione, dice
cebat lutticere, neque tam parrum incommodum
mereri, uc tantis cum doloribus colleretur.
Acque sic habes lummatim, ex quibus Pratatio
nem exstruere mihi propolueram, quaeque, utmitii
videtur, ului esse possene, (i debite perhcerentur, ad
evellendum praejudicium, quo praeoccupati lumus
circa beltiarum lenlum, atque ad ostendendum, cas
non niliMachinas eAC, anu LUPICMI OMNIUIM AF-
titicum Arrificis Fabretactas: Verum ca de rehujus
operis lectio melius adhuc nosinstruet, li, uc recte
eus incelligentiam percipiamus, latis animum In-
cendere voluerimus. Atjam hac mea adeo prolixa
eAt Pratatio, uc Lectorem ne exculatione quidem,
Quam ci debeo, nolim Fatisare.