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# Title: Qua Continentur, Oratio Inauguralis. Mathesis Universalis; sive, Arithmeticum opus Integrum, tum Numerosam Arithmeticam tum Speciosam complectens. Adversus Meibomii, de Proportionibus Dialogum, Tractatus Elencticus (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 84:1, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 84:1)
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Oratio nancuralis.
inter quos, praeter superius nominatos, etiam Hlippo-
crates Chius, Archytas Terentinus, Leo, Theudius,
Fudoxus, Fuclides, Fratolthenes, Archimedes, Iip-
Parchus. Apollonius Pergxus, Ctelibius, Hero, Cemi-
nus, Soligenes, Ptolemaeus, Pappus, Diophantus, Sc-
renus, Proclus, Theon, aliique mulci quorum ne
quide nomina recensere licet. Ouorum alii Theore-
mata ex Problemata ingeniole excosirarune; alii ne-
thodice dilpoluerunt, eroscieas addiderunt, quibus
illustrarunt e contirmarune; alii Mechanicis ulibus
applicarune; alii denique calis, alii terris, alii aliis
masis exercitati: vix enim ullo ulpiam Tolo, quam
apud Cracos, Mathemata Felicius Roruerunt.
Neque Cudia ilthaec Marhematica coluerunt tan- Mathesis a-
tum Oraecix Philolophi plerique omnes; Ced inter pud Graecos
prima crudicionum rudimenta poluerunt; unde ante altus
10  cEoxl Madicara nominaruNE. Grammatices enir
Cudio rix opuserat; cum lingud vernacula PerasC Mabusis un
bantur omnia: Rhetorices Aolculos, antiquiores OrXe- de dicta.
ei minus curabant; uc qui res masis quam verbainse-
ccabantur: Logicam etiam, qua usi crant, ip(o pori-
usulu, quam praeceptis, addiscebant: adeoque pri-
ma Ccudiorum principia in iplis Mathematis pone.
banc; quiquehorum rudes esent, uc omnino auaduroi,
arasdrot, e indocti prorlus habebantur.
Hlinc orta cAt illa PxthagOrx quoiorrcuornois, qud
inspecto vultu, indicium primo tecie, an Mathema-
cum capaces essent, qui ipsius scholam adire vellent;
nequis auaeduris, arasdros intraret, sudiumque male
collocaret. Haud secis et Plato affixo programmate
prohibebat unris acuerenis cioira. Zenocrates postea
quendam repulit, Mathematum ignarum, ne lui au-
ditor eet, ut qui Antas Philolophia non habuerit:
ras naBâs inquie, enoorpies on Exas. Nec multo scciUS
Aristoteles fecisse creditur; qui ex Mathematica mul-
disciplinas
decebatur.