# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797435492:0174 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797435492:0174?run=74 # Title: [Lectiones XVIII, Cantabrigiae in Scholis publicis habitae] Lectiones XVIII, Cantabrigiæ in Scholis publicis habitæ (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 0; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 0) # Folio 110, page id 797435492:0174 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=797435492&page=174 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/797435492/jpgs/default/00000174.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 38 lines, status machine # Lines: 38 recognised, mean confidence 0.94 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. L. E C Y. XV. Flas instancias, Facilitatis sraria, ita propoluimus, qua (i punctum R, una cum duobus oculis O, P in plano existeret ad superticiem in- Aectentem recto. id quod urrum in experiendo praecise contingat néene; parum retert; duas urcunque species apparere liquet. quin Facile concipitur etiam eo polito rem non aliter se habitura. Elis praelibatis, illud discuriamus, quod innuimus, Lcvsoze aenu quo nempe P. Eericonins propolicionem hanc luam comprobatum it: ec Si oculus, e aspectabile sint in diversis mediis se mutuo contingen- ecribus, imago apparebit in concursu cacheri, ee radii ab oculo per cpunctum retractionis directe producti. Sit utique punctum F in medio dentiori HI L M N collocatum, quod aet oculos A, B radioS F F A, F D B emittat retractos ad B, _D; E recta A P, BD conveniant in C; sit aurem superticiei retringenti perpendicularis recta F C; erit (inquir) puncti P imaso in recta FC5. id quod ita demonstrat: Ouoniam dicta imaso cam in retracto AF, quam in retracto B D existir, erso in horum intersectione C exister verum intersectio C in recta FC existet; quoniam haec communis est sectio planorum AP P, BD F superticiei retringenti rectorum. ergo liquet propolitum. Inhanc denionstrationem adverto; T. Supponie ea refractos AF, B D concurrere; quod tamen Falsum est, praeterquam in uno vel al- tero calu; quum nempe planum AB P in eodem existit cum ipsa recta FC plino; vel, cum puncta A, B sunt in superticie coni recti, cujus axis est recta F C. quod si prior casus ponatur, e supra demon- Pratis manitectum est retractos AF, BD non in recta FC, sed intra angulum FC HI convenire; quod e principiis nostris elicitum illum Taltem constringere deber, qui principia ista admitrit ac amplectitur. 2. Elinc, illa demonstratio iplam se perimit: Nam, quoniam (in po- Cito casu) puncti Fimaso tam in recta A F, quam in recta B D existie, adeoque in harum concursu; concursus aurem ilte non est in recta FC; ergo liquet dictam imaginem extra rectam PC vertari. 3. Sup. vonit ilte discursus (ut ex suppar ille jamjam prolatus) puncti F uni- cam oculo unrique imasinem apparere; quod asuror Eus O erat; anobis paullo supra retutarum. Enimrero diversi oculi lunt reipsa diversi spectatores. haec, opinor, ratiocinium illud latis enerrant. ( TH Dioper. F18. 182.