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# Title: Friderici Hoffmanni Ad Celeberrimi cuiusdam Viri Fundatoris Novae Philosophiae Spiritualis Scriptum brevis & modesta responsio cum Vindicatione Philosophiae experimentalis mechanicae (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 223, Stück 7)
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Celeberrimus, acumen ingenii esse, quaestiones relmille inanes
Formare concra qualdam positiones; majoris rem artis esse
credo, unico rero ratiocinio Falsitatem propositionis demon-
Arare; illud Faciunt Cophistae, hoc docti de lincerihomines.
In sinc praetationis Ccleberrimus Vir injurium sele prae-
Detcontrame, dum diftamat, Non neminem esse, qui actionem
condictionisrei lux adveriu me paret ratione fundamentorum
Medicina nuperedicorum. Egoprobe rerum mearum con-
sciusnon possum credere talemesse, expectamus aurem illius
actionem, esusticienterrespondebimus. Lubens Fatcor, non
inhrisce fundamentis, ubiinnumera resoccurrunt, me plane
nora de inaudita poluisse, verum receptas de jam notas praestan
tissimorum Medicorum ac Protellorum opiniones, detinitio-
nes, obserrationes iradidisse, multa tamen de meis addidi: FF
maxime ordinem, methodum facillimam mihi ipsi rendico.
Deniqueinjurium se mihi praebet, me sub tide silentii commu-
nicatos quosdam lui ingenii Fatustanquam meosluci expoluil-
se publica; Cur non indicat, quinam illi sint, cur non mentioné
injicie inlua examinatione Corollarioru: Plura lapiuscule cum
ipso locutus sum despatio, corpore, spiritu, materia, de non nisi
entia rationispercepi, de Fructusmera imaginationis: Nunquam
audirinorum inventum, experimentum de rationem novam
explicandi aliquod phaenomenon. C ur non a memurilatosictos
Faecusintegrosac viros in lucem ponit, ut omnes admirari pol
sent tantam inventionem, cantos exclulos ingenii partus.
Ouod artinet iplam tractationem Corollariorum, illa
jam huc non spectant, sed tunc temporis ad cathedram, ad
quam Celeberrimum Virum non semel, sed laepius instanti
me inricari. Vericatem camen illorum, paucissimis exceptis, alia
cempestate rindicabo. Ulterius, quod ad antitheles Theorematui
dequaestiones annexas acrinet, quod ad easnonrespondeânemo
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