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# Catalogue record: 22755 — Leibniz an Des Bosses
# Incipit: Si id quod Monadibus ad faciendam Unionem superadditur
# Date: 1712-05-26
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: DesBosses
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II (assigned, not yet published)
# Other printings: -Gerhardt, PhilSchrr 2 S.444-445 -Janet (2. Aufl.) 2 S.547-548 (teilw.) -Zehetner: Briefwechsel mit Des Bosses, 2007, S. 243-245.
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=22755&katnr=K+5956
# The Leibniz-Archiv's transcriptions of the letters of 1712 (pre-edition): https://www.gwlb.de/leibniz/digitale-ressourcen/repositorium-des-leibniz-archivs/laa-transkriptionen-1712
# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-958680
# Title: LBr. 95 · DesBosses
# Folios: Bl. 164–165 (from the shelfmark LBr 95 Bl. 164-165): 4 pages, canvases 331–334, page ids DE-611-HS-958680:0331 to DE-611-HS-958680:0334
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-958680&page=331
# Lines: 91 recognised on 3 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.93
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## Folio 164r — DE-611-HS-958680:0331
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mo
ratu Bartholonaeo des Bosset
oC. jes
padeborna
me
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1
fanoberae
Pater Fautor Honoratissime
adfaciendam Unionem
e
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Maji. 171
i id quod monadibus superadditur substantial
esse negas, jam corpus substantia dici non potest. ita
enim merum erit Monadum aggregatum, et vereor ne
in mera corporum phaenomena recidas. Si accidens
vocas, quicquid substantiam completam ita supponit, ut na
turaliter sine ipsa esse nequeat, non expuas in quo con
sistit id quod accidenti est essentiale, et quo etiam instatu
es
eripatetici
chanonem con omnino aliquid substantiale agnoscunt praeter Monade
alioqui secundum ipsos nullae substantiae praeter Mono
des forent. et monades non constituunt substantiam
completam compositam, cum non faciant unum per
se, sed metum aggregatum nisi aliquod substantiale vin
culum accedat.
Ex Harmonia non potest probari, aliquid aliud esse
in corporibus quam phoenomena. Nam aliunde con
stat harmoniam phaenomenorum in animabus non
otiri ex influeu corporum, sed esse prestabilitam.
Idque sufficeret si solae essent animo vel Monades; quo
casu etiam omnis evanesceret extensio realis, ne
Monades enim
per se ne
quidem r
in
n
inter se habent pempe reatem
qui ultra phaeno
menorum ordinem
porrigatur. Una
quaeque est velut
repavatus quidam
mundus, et li per
dentiunt interse
nullo alio perse
commercio nerus

## Folio 164v — DE-611-HS-958680:0332
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ne sum Motus, cujus realitas ad meras phenomenorum
mutationes redigeretur.
Vellem aliquis integrum systema Jansenu in compencie
exhiberet, alioqui difficile est in retam perplexa de mente
ejus recte judicare. et quemodmodum ex Augustino
plane contratia videntur exsculpi posse, verbis ejus e
ua sede dimotis; ita fieri potest, ut idem Jansenio eveni
at. Sed nexus meditationum tollere hanc dubitatio,
nem potest. Et valde versatum esse oportet in lectione
Augustini, et librorum ejus diversotum nosse tempora
scopes, synopsin; qui locis ex eo excerptis decipinon
vultiidolim nonnullis ejus verbis culriosius inspectia
animadvertere mini visu sum; eoque nunc sum factus
dircumspectior.
Harthoekerus promisit se ultra de Atomis non.
replicaturum: in eo proposito constantem se ostendere
vult.
Multas utique habeo Meditationes Philosophicas, sed
nondum editioni paratas. Ciis gea quae pertinent ad
Leges motus, maxime ad elucidanda naturae principia
inservire possunt.
Multum TIB) debeo, quod tanto studio in libello med
vertendo versaris. Vellem invenisses in eo quae operae
pretium facere possent.

## Folio 165r — DE-611-HS-958680:0333
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Gratias ago pro communicatis quae ad res Siner
ses pertinent; quanto magis eas consideto, eo magis
miror Romae fieri, quoe mini penculum missionis au
gere videntur. Et recta monent Lusitant, quotum
interest non ittitari Monarcham Sinensem. Ha
Interca vereor ut Papa probet, quod Lusitani sibi
jus pationatus in Eeclesias Sinenses attribuunt.
Nosse velim an R. P. Turneminus promissam
Theodicaea mea recensionem Trivultianis suis Actis
literariis inseruerit.
Libros inscheda hac notatas Dominus Romets
Kirchen quando volet mittere poterit.
dretium.
ascripsi quale ipsemet statuit. Solvam pecuni
am et prohis proprore, illi quem mini nominabis.
Interea vale et save
Deditis simus
g. G. Leibnitius

## Folio 165v — DE-611-HS-958680:0334
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