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# Catalogue record: 31869 — Leibniz an Vincenzio Viviani
# Incipit: Cum amicus Hetruscus, aulici apud vos [sic!] honore fungens,
# Date: 1703-10-15
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Viviani
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA III,9 N. 115
# Other printings: -Schlosser, E.O.: Die Rezensionstätigkeit von Leibniz auf mathematischem und physikalischem Gebiet. Diss. Heidelberg 1932. S.399-400. -Robinet: Iter italicum, 1988, S.257-258.
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=31869&katnr=50476
# AA III,9: the volume in the Repositorium des Leibniz-Archivs (CC BY-NC 4.0): https://www.gwlb.de/leibniz/digitale-ressourcen/repositorium-des-leibniz-archivs/laa-bd-iii-9
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-3612606
# Title: LBr. 959 · Viviani
# Folios: Bl. 1–2 (from the shelfmark LBr 959 Bl. 1-2): 4 pages, canvases 1–4, page ids DE-611-HS-3612606:0001 to DE-611-HS-3612606:0004
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-3612606&page=1
# Lines: 95 recognised on 3 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.93
# Catalogue: Leibniz-Katalog / Arbeitskatalog der Leibniz-Edition (https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/), ed. Arbeitsstelle Potsdam I der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY 4.0.
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## Folio 1r — DE-611-HS-3612606:0001
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mo
go vincentio
viano Godespidus Quilieliuus
libnitius
e
Cum amicus Hetruscus  autici
apad nos honore fungens, patriam petat,
am volui occasionem amiffere scribendi ad TE
et gratias persolvendi
as
pro munere praeclari operis de focis solidis
in
lv et mentione mei adeo
tam honorifica  ut excedat quicquid
a modesto homine agnosci potest, oralias
pensolvendi.  in Lipsiensibus
actis  leges honaisicaur condignam
Tu
Libri recensionem quae Libri, quae
dignis laudibus et autorem effert et
scriptionem. Atque utinam adessent Tibi
vegesa d aetatis adjulores, quorum opera
e
imia
praclara tot alia inventa lua praduci
Geometrica conservari possent. Nam
ego, quanquam Analysi illi salis dererus faven
quam vieta et Cartesius introduxre in
Geometriam, tamen agnosco multa esse
quae Methodo Veterum Geometrarum
per data et loca rectius consequimum
breviusque atque elegantius construimus vel

## Folio 1v — DE-611-HS-3612606:0002
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demonstramus. Nam Analysis illa speciosa
rem revocat quodammodo ad Arithmeticam ac nu
os seu generales.
meros,  incertos sed Reguliones Geometria vem
Alis 
nameris, seu magnitudini atque proportioni) addit
c
autem
situm. Sa situs pecliares proprias artes
peculiariaque offert compendia, quae Algebrate tractanti
non semper occurrene et a silu omnia, atque
a situ ad numeros per vim cogenti, ut habeatur
aequatio, et rursus aequationem alia vi ad situm
revocanti, ut habeatur ejus constructio, non
Saepe occurrere non possunt Itaque non
labi necesse est
spernendam censeo veterum Methodum sed
angendam, et novis artibus conjungendam;
nam prout problemata sunt, alia latus alia
epicheremata felicius succedunt, 
Neminem
autem nunc videt qui in ipsa veterum methodo
le uno felicius versetur
aeterum extra Geometriam, ubi
severius scribi quoq quoque non dubito
multa a e tanto ingenii judicius viro,
a tot funis
et meditationibus usum conjungenti, observata
esse pro rebus Architectonicis, cursu aquarum,
et Mechanicis innentis operibus ut caetera
taceam; quae cum familiarius  et

## Folio 2r — DE-611-HS-3612606:0003
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exponi
minore quam Geometrica labore tradi
possint liberis; optem profecto ut quae
B expromtiora habes, conjicere velis
efuere
in schedas aut ex illis depromere, et
praeterea
prodere in publicos usus
non dubito multa Tibi, ad huc in animo
versari, edi de dictis et dfactis e operibus
summmi atque sententiis summi viri Galila
et sane subinnuit aliqua Monconisius
in itinerario, ubi suum colloquium Tecum
onos plus quam triginta credo habitum atingit,
uod superest
labitum ptagit, diquibs
e. dabam
vale adnc dius, ac
fanoverae quae ut servare velis cum
ta
euis idquantum fas est  a CC reti
negu
mecum precabuntur omnes.
vale et adhuc diu asui p
ac
et onamento patriae Tuc.
Hfanoverae
utilitati publicae
mihifave.
cibam
15 Octobz. 1703.
ante

## Folio 2v — DE-611-HS-3612606:0004
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