# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/820424455:0034 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/820424455:0034?run=74 # Title: Nicolai Mercatoris Holsati, è Soc. Reg. Institutionum Astronomicarum Libri Duo, De Motu Astrorum Communi & Proprio, Secundum Hypotheses Veterum & Recentiorum præcipuas; Deqve Hypotheseon ex observatis constructione (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 63) # Folio 12, page id 820424455:0034 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=820424455&page=34 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/820424455/jpgs/default/00000034.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 38 lines, status machine # Lines: 38 recognised, mean confidence 0.93 # 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. ASTRONOMIA Insulam Nili, ubi dies longistima erat horarum tredecim, secundi per Sgenen, Urbem sub Tropico C ancri vel qual sicam; cerrii per Alexandriam ad octia Nili posiram; quarri per Rhodum lnsulam maris Medicerranei Cilicix objeetam; quinti per Romam _ Hellesponcum; sexti per Pontum, hodie per Venerias _ Mediolanum; sextimi per BoryAthe- nem, hodie per Podoliam ex Parrariam minorem, ubi lon- vistima dies est horarum sexdecim. Neque ulcerius pro- eressitunt veceres: Sed Heorerici, uri dixi, ad Arcticum usque circulum extenderune climatas quo superato, cum Sol aestare aliquo diebus non occumbat, adeoque non am- plius semitiorae incrementis mactaretur lux, Sed inteoris septimanis ex menlibus, placuie enumeratis 24 C limaribus alia sex addere augmento lueis menstruo distincta, se ad ipsum usque polum continuaca. Tam vero toridem Climard ab Aquatore versus polum ancarcticum numerari DOsuNE; Decnon interea per quodlibet coeli punetum circulus aliquis minor Equarori parallelus descriprus intelligitur. Ita ni mirum Parallelus est Aquarori cireulus perpetua apparitionis, quero punctum quodris sphaera coeleltis ipsi cardini borco Hlorixonris imminens, ec moru diurno circumactum de lineat; intra quem circulum quaecunque sellxe includumur, nunquam occidunt, sed perpecuo supra Hlorizontem con spiciuntur. Alius pari incerrallo ab _ quatOre reMOTUS per pernae occultarionis circulus Cellas coercet nunquam nobis orituras. Sed incer utrumque dictorum circulorum (IIX ellx e oriuntur _ occidunt. Tam vero ratione Meridianorum ex Parallelorum com- parati incolx Telluris alii dicuntur Periaeci, qui sub eodem Parallelo, ar oppoliis Meridianis degune; unde rempe states anni, Veris pura, xctaris, autumni, hyemis, ca(der experiuntur eodem tempore, accederire nimirum Sole pa- ricer ad verorum que parallelum sive verricem, e ab eodem recedence; at meridiei ex mediae noctis rices subeune al- cerras, prour Sol ad horum relistorum Meridianum revo- latione diurna gyratus accedir: alii rurtus appellaneur An- TCCB)