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# Catalogue record: 34242 — De Volder an Joh. Bernoulli
# Incipit: "Quaeria cur siluerim tam diu? quia haesitavi admodum…
# Date: 1704-05-31
# Sender: Volder — Addressee: Bernoulli, Joh.
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=34242&katnr=51712
# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-3653099
# Title: LBr. 57, 2 · Bernoulli, Joh.
# Folios: Bl. 122 (from the shelfmark LBr 57, 2 Bl. 122(-123)): 2 pages, canvases 243–244, page ids DE-611-HS-3653099:0243 to DE-611-HS-3653099:0244
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-3653099&page=243
# Lines: 58 recognised on 2 of 2 pages, mean confidence 0.93
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## Folio 122r — DE-611-HS-3653099:0243
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 123v); this page is its right half.
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/DE-611-HS-3653099/jpgs/default/00000243.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 26 lines, status machine
ir Amplissome atque Celeberrime
Fautor Hondratistine
Et lu tandem respontionem Volderm jam diutule
scriptam, mihi tanea nuperimme acceptam. Videtum
bolderus, uti verebaris, nonnihil offensus, idque in neis
expressius ortendit quan in ruis, ila ecin adme habet
quaris cur sileria tam dur2 Qlia basitavi ad modum
nuta Muttu Lerbnitio repponderem. Habent eris epis
portenores litlera quadam, quaminr persuadent, illume
magnorum virorumr more, non aequo atimo ferre con
traduentea. Nec velia quidpraa agere, quod pti ca
gratu sit, paesertia cum ex hac concertatione nortia
fruitua non adeo magnun splerem. Tota eain res lui
redibit, ut pro demonccatione substantiae natura suaarti
va acipiam nomen Eores exuas, unitatis, viruuma primi
Livatum, quae omnem in se contireaat mutationem de
quibus tamea aihil intelligat, nisi iaquantum vires der
varas, sive quanitatem et velocitatem perspectas habeam
Unica ratio propter quaa tantopere desideraon sine omne
subrtaati at natura sua esse activam, ea fuit, quod in causis
actionuta quidpiot inveniebam non saris perspectum; nec
ilud per errerexeius notius fieri apparet. Rescrpti taniet
utcunque, ut videt, quia ita velle videbatisi absque tuis eaim lit
feris hareo, an tam cito ex hoc dubico, rescribendum ne, an non
foret, enersistet; praesertim cutr abcartiguot hebdomadis
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## Folio 122v — DE-611-HS-3653099:0244
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 123r); this page is its left half.
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/DE-611-HS-3653099/jpgs/default/00000244.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 32 lines, status machine
languor me invaserit, qui omnem tollit arim vigorem. Nec agroto
pec tamen bene valeo, qui status eo pepis habet incomodi, quo
pius in eo prossicere licet firem.
Et hac quideur vol
derut, sed rogo cures ne es responiione ma susstuari
possit quod ea dibi transscrisserin. Vercor ne lanquor
de quo ille queritur moibum alique gravcoum minetur
dem
etenim et mini aate morbum membia trirti quodam
languore gravabantum. Non tan pronte mino redenat
vires quam aate aliquot hebdomadas sperabatu, sapius
atque per intervalla noncullas adhuc turbas in corpore
meo persentisio, et cigiliarum contumaria nondum
omnino cestat; unde eliam Tecum putarem bilem habere
praedominium in corpore meo, nisi phlegaratis obundanta
contrarium iadicare videretu. Consulueruat mihi
ipsi
quidam usum audularum Iiermontatarum, quas si
libus affertibus laboraates mira utilitatit se expertas
esse depraedicabant; haud dibie eacum virtus Tibinotior
erit quam alli alii citpote qui istti vicinor es, ideoque
quid de iis sentias etian mini convenire putes gratum erit
intelligere, quatiois hoc anni tempore acidula usurpar
non soleant hisi fate etiam creuale autumo.
Non magna mitiu spes affulyet de promovenda propi
medica, quemadmodum enim fere semper abhoriu at
is quae certit rationibus sabiliri requeunt et meris con
seituris nituntum, ita tanto magis fui alienut ab excolenda
medicina prartica, quod non tartum crebram experentiam
et proprias multus observationet sed etiam feticem me
moriam (quibur omnibus ego destituor) requia et in
tea ratiocorando nihil vel parum efficialum