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# Title: Optica Promota, Seu Abdita radiorum reflexorum & refractorum Mysteria, Geometrice Enucleata (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 94)
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Cccoridus Mathematicis.
Maneum esset (praectara Literarum
amina de mirandis Oprices encomiis apud
vos paneeyricum instituere; visum enim
sensuum pulcherrimum adjuvat; mgopi–
bus es presbytis (absq: Optices ope quodam.
modo caecis clarissimum praebet visum: Oci
los humanos abhisce terrestribus, ad caelestia majoribus no-
stris incornita, es incredibilia elevat; es ad perfectam
minurissimorum corporum visionem rursus detrudit: Unde
ansam praebet, omnes scientias naturales, es amplificandi, es
promovendi. Nihilominus Enter univer sas scientias Mathe-
maticas, nulta ab antiquis adeo nezlecta, es a paucioribus ex-
culta: Omissis enim Fuclide, AIhaZenO, ex Viceltione, aH-
thoribus etiam perobscuris es prolixis; e veteribus nullus ali-
quid momenti (quantum seio) nobis reliquit: P nectericis
autem, post Caliteum sidereum illum Mercurium, e omni
avo landibus celebrandum, multi,  scriptis. ex sumpribus
immenses, in hac messe landabiliter sudarunt: inter quos ez0,
Invenili quodam ardore instigatus, es ex in ventione inae qua-
litaris ellipricae audaciam nactus, hisce speculationibus Opiicis,
 praeci: seometricae Telescopiorum demonstrationi, pro
facultate incenii me accinxi; es ex analoziis in prima hijus
tractauli propositione declaratis, inveni primam hujus op.
ticae partem, de cenuina refractionum hypothest es mensura:
nescrus scilicet (propter inopiam novorum librorum Mathe-
malicorum. in alias inslyt.  Bibliotheca Abredonen si) haec ea.
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