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# Title: [Physica, Id Est, Scientia Rerum Corporearum, In Decem Tractatus Distributa] Physica, Id Est, Scientia Rervm Corporearvm, In Decem Tractatvs Distribvta (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 7:3-4; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 7:3-4)
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Epistola Dedicatoria.
exequutioni mandare distuli: nunquam animum
meum posui (ita me Dens amet numquam stu-
dium mutar; sed et incenue dicam, nucas meas
Doctisimis oculis tuis, quos ne minimus quidem
nanus subierfueit, subiicere non parum verebar:
terrebat me vastisimus ille rei litteraria, (eu litte-
ratura niversa apparatus, Cs immen(us propemo.
dum omnium disciplinarum thesaurus, quem habes
in numerato: terrebai summa illa incenii perstica-
citas, C acerrimi indicii vis qua plurumum vales:
terrebat denique insius quidam à natura pu-
dor, tenvitatis mea conscium; vipote qui appri-
me teneam, nihil à me scribi aut componi posse, quod
Lydium tuum sustinere queat; onde ivre ac merito
timere videbar ex ea qualicumque opinione, quam
de me praeferre videris, excidere: haec onica fuit hu-
ins procrastinationis es mora causa: Summa ta-
men illa, quam in me sentio, animi erea Te propensio
timorem omnem ac pudorem vicit, s incredibilis
quidam amoris impetus cum sinculari observantia
coniuncti, frecit abegit que timores; (6 tandem v0-
tis ac desideriis meis factum est satis. Illud autem
praecaeteris animos fecit, quod cum librorum aman-
tisimus sis, éosque non iam in pluteis tro more di
Bonas, sed quasi addenses, es conceras in cumulos,
vel vt annt aceruarim accumules in vasti sima illa
Bibliorheca, quam indefesso studiio, es maximo sum-
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