# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0016 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0016?run=74 # Title: Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 105, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 105) # Folio 10, page id 859264114:0016 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=859264114&page=16 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/859264114/jpgs/default/00000016.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 38 lines, status machine # Lines: 38 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. Accordino co the difference oF thele Vibrarive motions oF the incompattine bulks. AII bodies are more or less porvertul in preservins cheir peculiar Bapes. AII bodies neer the Farth are incompassed with a Auid subeil macrer by che differins Velocity ot Wrtiole pares alt Solid bodies arc Kepe cogether inthe Deculiar Mapes, ther ivere letc in wrhen cher vere las Auid. And all Auid bodies whatloever are mixed wich this Auid and wrhich is noc excruded trom them til cherbecome solid. PIuid bulks difter trom Polids only in chis, that aII Auids consist oF cro Ports oF particles, the onc this common Menstruum near the Farth, wrhich is incer- Sper(edbetmeen the Vibratins particles appropriated tothat bulk, and so participarins oF che motions and Vibrations thereof: And the other, by excludine WhoIIr, ornoc participatins oF chatmotion. Though the particles ot solid bodies do by their Vibratire motions exelude this Auid From comina be- ereen ehem where cheir morions do immediately touch, vet are there certain spaces betreen them ertrich are noc detended By che motion ot the par- ticles trom being perraded by che HICtCrOgenCOUS Ruid menleruum. These Spaces Co undetended by the bodies and Vi- bratire morion of the partieles, and consequener perraded by che subeil incompaltine Heterogeneous Auid are thole e cai che insensible pores ot bodies. Accordinq tothe bignels ot the bodies the moriono dre, but in reciprocal proportion: Thac is, the bio- ser or more povertul the body is, the lorver is its motion mith irhich it compoundsthe particles; and ehe lels the body is, the lirifcer isies morion. Phelmaller che partieles ot bodies are, the nearer do chey approach to che nature oF the general Auid, aud