# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/851708439:0872 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/851708439:0872?run=74 # Title: [Johannis Wallis S. T. D. Geometriae Professoris Saviliani, in Celeberrima Academia Oxoniensi, De Algebra Tractatus; Historicus & Practicus. Anno 1685 Anglice editus; Nunc Auctus Latine. Cum variis Appendicibus; Partim prius editis Anglice, Partim nunc primum editis] Johannis Wallis S. T. D. Geometriæ Professoris Saviliani, in Celeberrima Academia Oxoniensi, De Algebra Tractatus; Historicus & Practicus. Anno 1685 Anglice editus; Nunc Auctus Latine. Cum variis Appendicibus; Partim prius editis Anglice, Partim nunc primum editis (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 100:1/2, Stück 2; Leibn. Marg. 100:1/2) # Folio 848, page id 851708439:0872 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=851708439&page=872 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/851708439/jpgs/default/00000872.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 36 lines, status machine # Lines: 36 recognised, mean confidence 0.89 # 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. C O M N E R C L U M 640 Dacum Muuerum cubum in duos cubos rationales dividere, wehich is impossible. (Not meddline wvich the otber, as done already, at least in severat instances, by Mons. LTenele, as pou lenore.) ec. Alcerum id est quod de Fyperbolis habet. Obi existimac me fidem non habere dictis fuis de cenero Graricacis in Fyperbolis Intinicis. Quod longe secus elt. Duippe cxo ne suspicabar quidem; quin exerie bona tide Vir Nobitissimus, cum ea libi perspecta dixerit, ec quidem d mulcis annis; nempe, in Hlyperbolis ince Eris; (Torcaltis etiam ec in semihyperbolis, ucur illud nondum dixerit:) Vri nec jam luspicor, quin quam sile tubjunsit qualtionem pocis sic solrere. Sed ee alia ee specimina non pauca jam praestitit. quamplurima, sire de Hyperbolis, sire de aliis iiem Geometria apicibus, vel etiam Arichmeticis, coregia Pheoremata libi praello esse nullus dubico. Guorum Ouam aucem jam exponit quaeltionem ( sp. 37. ) nempe Lxposita vera FIYper- bola ABC, cujus Asymptota, NM, N O; quarum alteri, puta NO, parallelae du- metricant aupcta. TerunE. Neque enim racat ret opeta Breltum etie duco ad singulas minurias de- Ccendere. Cpraecedent ua HoH abrumllem nec minus Forcaltis elexancem,) Sibi repOnerE. CantUr M A, HIB: PropOsitum est. sieUram A M FTB, (linea ZTy perbolica C3 TrI Bus rectis AM, MFI, HB, contentam,) recta OR (quae sit ipsis HB, M A, pa rallela, itasecare ut secmemum RC B, ad reliquum AM OR, sit in ratione data: Sic Colro. Si daca rario sic CMabilis, VerIS expOnacur numeris inceoris, puca uc 3 ad 2, vel uc a ad c; acque inter rectas NVLL, NM, inveniantur coc media proportionales (Talcem, ex LOI ea quX OpUS CrIF) suol est uiriusque numeri 28 Gregacum una MMUS, Duca 4 = 3 f 2 -- 5, vel a F C = L; GuatI cercia (sive qua ab a denominatur) ab NVFZ; vel secunda (sire qua ab e denominacur) ab NM; SIE N~ DICO; Rectam E R (quae a putteto L, 1BH LL B, vel M A, du- cacur patallela) rem imperacam praeltare. Si vero daca ralto Mmettabilis, Pocerie id ipiuus pratcath Loxarichmorum ope, quai peaMe, utur non secundum Gco- Reliqua quod actinet; vel jamdudum de illis dietum ete, vel oiu laltem po- Cacerum, uc Nobilistimo Viro rices rependtam vitum clt, Oualtionem hanc Nempe, FExposita Conchoide A O, cujus vertex A, Polus P, regula CR E (rectant AP in puncto C secans ad ansules rectos) si centro C duentur quadrans cireul AR