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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 mancuralis:
Num libri de Caelo, de Mundo, de Animalibus, a-
diis rebus naturalibus, omnino indisni Tunt quos
legat Philosophus, nisi haec omnia pollit cAiCere E
Apase vox illa l PhiloCopho indional cnjus illud cst,
ca Peire quae Deus iple condidit, quaeque vel ArS vel
Nacura possir efficere. Ouem melius deceat Chre-
metisillud Terentiani, quam Chremerem iptum,
tiomo sum, nihil tonmanum a me alienum puto.
Sedue terio aoamus, Audicores; unde est quod
haec efficiat Mechanicus opcrator: Nonne quia Philo-
Topho Mathemarico caoctus: Pa nempe quae Me-
chonicus efficit, non nisi Philolopho dictante Facit.
Alcioris siquidem scientiae munus eles ca docere e in-
celligere, quae ips operantur: Prout minoris artis est
admoco pollice barbita pullare, quam concentum
musicum asuornos depingere. Horologium puta sci
ocericum depingit forre live Pictor Cire Camentarius;
Sed praescribente Mathemarico: Hlaud secus ac me-
dicamina componie PharmacopauS, Sed dictante
Medico. Nec minus incerest Philosophi, a duparinos et
incelligere ex demonstrare; quam Mechanici Xaeus.
Marhesin ig.
nITare nOn
unos operari. Adeoque indignum esset Academicis,
Ein opiticum potius Mechanicorum ofticinis, quam
Philoloptorum (cholis, Matheleos coenitio quarenda
Foret.
leve dedecus.
an verotante laudis est. dicetis Fortan, ea scire quae
nec mechanicis Cunt aliena: Demus, Siplacet, non
esei (nec concedamus tamen:) AE mUIta SUNE, quae
scire, non est magna laudis, cum ea tamen nelcires
non parvisit dedecorie. Non marnae laudis est, virum
Reademicum Latine posse _ intelligere ee loqui, at
magni est aedecoris, non Dolte.
Fulius Sca- exemplo (u illua Julii Scaligeri; (ut de Tolephi
liver Muhe. Celometricis nihil dicam;) qui non mociolibi, lcd
seos ipnarm Ec aliis non paucis, videtur magnue. Cim Cardanus