# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com
# Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/820424455:0226
# Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/820424455:0226?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 204, page id 820424455:0226
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=820424455&page=226
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/820424455/jpgs/default/00000226.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 33 lines, status machine
# Lines: 33 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
PROBLEMA XVTI.
invenire aphelion es eccentricitatem inferiorum.
Ooniam Inferiores Planerx nunquam adeo longé di
Lerediuncur à Sole, uc in ejus oppolicionem reniant:
opus est hic alia methodo investigandi aphelii _ cccentrict
racis, quam istic; sumenda que sunc loco trium oppolitio
num, ires elonsariones maxime a Solc. Dec retert, quo
momenta harum vix praecise detiniri poltint, dum circ
cempus cacionarii rix murane distanciam à Sole; nan
maxime aberrecur nonnihil in detiniendo tempore maximi
dictancix, dummodo hac sir eadem vel quasi, idem pene
exinde conticierur. Sic igitur Figura L. XIX. SSol; D, F, F
eria cerrae loca in sua orbica, ad ires elonsariones maximas:
licque orbira Planerx inferioris PC HI A, _ huic circum
Ecriprus circulus P RL M A. P. lanera maxime elongarus à So1
Cit in C, H, ex I; ideo que ad hac puncta à locis rerrae ducta
rectae DC, E H, FI, rangenc elliplin, exdemque secabuna
circulum Cingula bis, sed sectiones Soli o proxiores incidem
in R, L, M; Ad haec vero puncta à Sole ductae SR, 5L3
SM, Perpendiculares erunc ad iplas cangentes DC, F lin
FM; adeoque Triangula DRS, EL S, FMS erust
rectangula; ex lingulorum hyporenula erune distantix Let
luris à Sole, ac proinde datae; _ anguli inter reCtAS e
quoliber cerrae loco ad solem, _ ad punctum conractus
eductas incercepri ad D, E, F, erunc elongationes Planeta
maximae, icidem datx. Unde dabuntur non modo horun
angulorum complementa DSR, ESL, FSM; sed e inve
nieneur ip(x perpendiculares SR, SL, SM. Invencis autest
his lineis concipiantur eria eriangula ab ipsis, e connecten.
ribus earum extremitates chordis interCEPT RSL, LSM,
ESM, ubi in lingulis dantur duo lacera (iplxe nimirum per
Dendiculares)