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# Catalogue record: 29121 — Optima ratio emendandi Vecturam.
# Incipit: Efficiam ut currus in via polita
# Date: 1700
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA VIII (assigned, not yet published)
# Other printings: Gerland, Nachgelassene Schriften, 1906, S. 217-218
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/00068537
# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Technica LH 38
# Folios: Bl. 249 (from the shelfmark LH 38 Bl. 249): 2 pages, canvases 497–498, page ids 00068537:0497 to 00068537:0498
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# Lines: 61 recognised on 2 of 2 pages, mean confidence 0.89
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## Folio 249r — 00068537:0497
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optimaratio emendandidecturam E
ifficiam ut currus in pia polita et aequabili semper incedat, viaque
s
veamus ipse suam secum ferat. Nempe rota currus minor a
incedat in majore b. eamque intustangat, secumque nihilo minus pro
pellat. Manifestum hoc modo quantum
cumque pondus currui impositum sit, non ideo
rolam A difficilius incedere. c quia
rota B dura politaque intus ess; facilermque
imnori viam probet. ipsa autem s
etsi pondere lolius massae prematur tamen cum
promoventa est, ipsum non fert sed potius a pondere
illo promovetur et si sti restitat, nimisque in terram
defixa sit rotai
ipsa procedens, ipso currus pondere
interioret
et ead exteriorem procedere cogit Oindusque currus ejus
mitum magis juvat quam impedit. Debet intus iter
rotae exerniteroris in exterioris concavo esse exavato
et ita ut non facile exorbitare ex interior rota
possit Eum infinem paulo altior ora sive ripa viae
ex
hujus cavae esto. Aper punctum A incedit restis more
communi, potest, et essevectis axis rotae majoris per A.
etsi enim inmediatep, ra eum non feratur tamen id
it perconsequentiam semper enim aequalem a terra
distantiam servat ejus centrum B antum vec axis
n

## Folio 249v — 00068537:0498
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paulo majorem quam alias
votae
lbertatem Talier
debes
quia o primus conarus non est circa exterioris non est cirus
centrum, sed circa ipsum punctum quo tangit terram.
aa
est
qualuor ha rotae exteriores connexae erumt suis axibus
inter se ut interiores. Imd connexae cum interioris
ut simul cum illis moveantur. Ex axibus potest ve
parte alia immibiti potett aliquide surgere quod
e
rota extericrem superius utrinque oulineat quo
nunus vacillet. Quanquam si xem habeat idnoni
sit necesse motlus interori cavendum ne abcu
Dem
xtencre excedat. potest surgere aliquid ex
parte immobili insinuans est) in ervi superne in
cavitatem viae, quando circulatione jurs sum delatu
erram supina spectat, ut loc insertum inde expel
las
dun lulum et Capillos quaeque alia motum morari
possent. nota exterior axem habeat debet
interior dimidia minor esse. Sed jam video diffi
cultatem, si axem habet et ladios habebit; qui
obstabunt minori. Remedium est ut duplices ladio
habeat exaxe ab utraque parte exeuntes intra
quos minor t sub axe incedat. imro non est illis locus
quia minoris axem impedient, nisi cum faciamos
dependere a ac descendere ab axe superioris. Sed
an conttrariu potius jut majoris axis potius pendeat ab laxe
minons. dispiciendum.