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# Catalogue record: 17410 — Leibniz an Johann Bernoulli
# Incipit: Suspicabar Dn. March. Hospitalium
# Date: 1697-03-08 (97-02-26)
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Bernoulli, Joh.
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA III,7 N. 078
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=17410&katnr=45241
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-958803
# Title: LBr. 57, 1 · Bernoulli, Joh.
# Folios: Bl. 137 (from the shelfmark LBr 57, 1 Bl. 137.140 (=30269) (140r°,v°)): 2 pages, canvases 275–276, page ids DE-611-HS-958803:0275 to DE-611-HS-958803:0276
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-958803&page=275
# Lines: 52 recognised on 2 of 2 pages, mean confidence 0.91
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## Folio 137r — DE-611-HS-958803:0275
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 140v); this page is its right half.
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/DE-611-HS-958803/jpgs/default/00000275.jpg
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Groninga d. 23 febr. 1697
e2 Ampliscimtre alque Celeberrime
autor Honor a listiale
Nuperrimat neas ullao Curtore ad de diniscat una cum
incluris ad da. Menkenium, haud dubie jat auesteris quanndo
lane accipies: opera previum duxi ut praecentes Da. Hossi,
talii heri acceptas site mora Tibi comcnicarem; exquibus
andebis ejus solutionea, fortunae an inductriae tribuendem
acsuio; Ejus enim formula generalio ce = Tandus
Vy aana
mea
solutioni apprime conspirat: Interim in hac Melhodo
Horpilatiana Anbesae videtur paralogcimut quando in
ferm certandere que la some des ghas doit étre la plus
scetile, cum enim dutaatiam centri gravitalis debeat est
brevistima, erit  non vero su at, ponendum = inimmo,
et
at
fodie
hanc dificultatet Tno. Hossitalioreteribo, una cum aliqua
li via qua ei occurri possit. dicendo quod teum cuiva AM
infinitie nodis quidem valiabilis ex, ejurdem tamen manere
possit longitudinis seu ejus aggravationes ejurdem ponderit
adeaque. Syn di sumi possit pro conttanti: sed nec hoc tich.
opaino salistacit, non enim de unico cuva punito M tantum
determinando agitur. Tuam ilaqe libenter audium sentenlian
S. haec methodus sit bona, habemus jam hes perveniendi ad
quanitum, unau dirertam quae ribi ad eo planat, alteram
es optica, tertiam es salica petitam reducendo sc. curvam
denensur ad speciem suniculariae; latem ergo resoliendi sinon
aperissem olim l’arisio modum Marchioni, nec nunc suam
reperiset solutioneur; et fortat plane non reperiscet si
hon in omnibus meis ad eun literit digitum sat proste in

## Folio 137v — DE-611-HS-958803:0276
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 140r); this page is its left half.
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/DE-611-HS-958803/jpgs/default/00000276.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 19 lines, status machine
tendistem ,ut landem vel sola conjectura veram curvam
dercensir co divinare potuisiet; miror ad eaque quod non
citius repererit. Alterum neum problema in programate
impresco proporitum, ut video, etiam solvit. pottquam ipti
generalem talia solvendi methodum tradidintem pronuper.
sed unde hauterit nentionem non faciet Plura epiprae
sentiaum non addo, niri quod recenr mihi nata filiola eliam
recentia Hudius meir afferat impedimenta vale et
favere perge
bseqaent simuo
Remitle puusoliteras
Hospitalianas
tata credo me posse problema
curvae catenariae direrte solvere,
tempe ex consideratione breviscimae
diaatiae ceatio gravitalis ab sio
ri donte; quod memine dibi fuisce
olim ex valde quasitis, dum illud
per series efficere indituebas