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# Title: LBr. 428 · Huet
# Folio 4v, page id DE-611-HS-974422:0008
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 5r); this page is its left half.
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# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 21 lines, status machine
# Lines: 21 recognised, mean confidence 0.98
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illius magni, quod Regio iussu illustrisemi Ducis Montau-
secii suasa, ductu Tuo, plausa omnium susceptum est, re–
vocare literas sugientes revinificare lumen pene
moriturae antiquitatis, et optimis autoribus iam tertiam
vitam dare, cum post virius vix seculi decursum
redeunte contentu, alio barbariei genere succedente
velut saturi vivendi, claudere ruosus oculos coe-
perint. Ita enim video nonnullos magnorum vi-
eorum, Baconi, et Galilai et Cartesii monitis et que
relis abuti ad internecionem sapientiae veteris
disimulationemque ignorantia suae, ut iuste sptreuisse
videantur indigna sciri; multantes ipsi sese, e
quantum in ipsis est; oebemq omnibus praesidus
atque experimentis tot seculorum. Et fallor gra
nissimis illis scriptoribus, quorum se discipulos
profitentur; ex cidisse quaedam in eundem sensum
quasi instauratione quadam magna, si Baconi, aut
rasa animi tabula, si Cartesio credimuo, opus sit
ad recte sapiendum. Sed condonandum erat liberius
invehentibus in temporum suorum supinitatem, et igna-
uam