# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0009 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0009?run=74 # Title: Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 105, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 105) # Folio 3, page id 859264114:0009 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=859264114&page=9 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/859264114/jpgs/default/00000009.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 39 lines, status machine # Lines: 39 recognised, mean confidence 0.91 # 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. Diltances oF all thole markes, and comparine them together vou Mall find chat chey will aIl bc equal the one totheother, (0 that il a dractum dochmove the Whee ten deorees, tmo drachims will more ic tirenty, and three chirer, and tour forer, and sre FEY, and (0 Forrrards. Or takce a Wire Arins oF tmener, or chirer, or Forey Foot lons, and Fasten the uPDer PaRE LICrCOF 1O anail and to the other end Fasten a Scale to receire thenciohes: Then rith a pairot Compasses takethe distance ot thebottom of the scale Fromthe ground Or Roor underneath, and set donn che Paid distance, then put in weistes into the Caid scale in the lame manner as inthe former trials, and meature the severat Pretchinos ot the said srino, and set them donn. Then compare the several Srerchines ot the Caid Crins, and vou ill find chac chey will alvays bear the lame proportions onc to the othier thac the meighes do that made them. The Pame will be Found, il trial be made, witha piece ot der mood that will bend and return, it one end chereot be H x in a horizontal pocture, and to che other end be hansed meistus to matie it bend dornards. Themanner oF erring che Pame ching uxon a body OE Air, Whether it be For the rarefaction or For the comprestion thereot I did about Fourreen rears since publitr in my Microeraphia, and rheretore Y MaII nocnced to add any Furcher description thereot. Fach oF these mays riii be more plaintr under- Rood br the explanations ot the annexed Aoures. The Arst Whereot doth represent by A B thc corI ror helix of Wire, Cthe end ot it, by irhich it is su- (pended, D ehe ocher end thereot, by irhich a (maII Scale E is hanged, into rrhich pucting Weiohes aSFC HITR LM N, Cngly and separately cher bcine in proportion to one another a5 1234 5678, thc Sprins ill bethereby equally ArCLCHE+O0, P, 4, Y, S, L. H. W, that