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# Catalogue record: 3972 — [De praestantia systematis Copernicani. Zweite Fassung]
# Incipit: Praeclarum Ciceronis dictum est
# Date: 1689
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA VI,4 N. 377
# Other printings: -Gerhardt: Mathematische Schriften, Bd. 1-7, 1849-1863, 6 S. 145-147 (tlw.). -Robinet: Iter Italicum, 1988, S. 107-110 -(engl. Übers.) R. Arthur, Leibniz on Time, Space and Relativity, 2021, S. 376-378
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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 11, 14
# Folios: Bl. 10 (from the shelfmark LH 35, 11, 14 Bl. 10.14): 2 pages, canvases 19–20, page ids 00068187:0019 to 00068187:0020
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Praeclare
resme a Cicerone
cictum est: opinionum
commenta delet dies
natarae judicia confirmat
Traeclarum Ciceronis dictum
est: opinionum commenta delet
dies, naturae judicia confirmat
ipns
Id circa optimam Mundan
systematis explicandi rationem
quotidie experimur, quae novis
quotidie inventis eo pervenit
ut jam vix quisquam sit t
insignium Mlathematicorum qui non
praeferendam fateatur si per Superiorum
decreta consurasque liceret
3 eadem
Et Clauoins
des Chales  ex Socierate Jesu
vir inhis studiis versatissimus ingenui
fassus est vix aliam Hypothesin
chaeriononis tam pultire pleneque
sperari posse, quae menti magis, satisfaciat
Absurdam quidem in Philosophia non esse
ut olim credebatur, concedent hodie plerique
omnes. Ricciolus) omnia argumenta vulusaria buh. eam
rejecit excepto uno quod sumitur a motugtaoium aut
projectorum. sed hoc quoque nullam vim habere
Gassendus, et P. Stephanns de Angelis et
10h. Aphonsus Borcilus evicerunt
Quoc altinet ad argumenta Theologica
ab autoritate Scripturae sacrae sumta
tassi sunt P. Mersenrus ordinis Minimorum
et P. Honoratus Fabrius soc. jesu
nihil prohiben quin Ecclesia declaret post
aliquando
agnita, ab eruditis argumentorum
rationum naturalium efficaciam
pondusque maximum declaret
Unde Christopioris
clavius Societats
Jesu Mathematicus
celebris, cum morti
senevicinus nova per Tele
scrpium in venta coelestia
intellexisset, et tunula
jeri inprimis lunulas
joviales intellex isset
altula actum esse exclamavit
dipen
de vulgari Aistrondam
videbat enim vim
maximam Arralogiae
t nunc quam postea
aoda reperta anant
et Comitum, saturn
tam manifestam
reddidere
ut vix
ei amplius resist
possit perinderac
si quis non obstante
omni verisimilitidine
defindere vellet.
lunam esse centrum
jaun olim
unifesi

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verba autorum Lacrorum sic posse accipi
ut accipiuntur verba  omniur Mathematicorum
nensestea qui licet novum systma
sequantur nunquam tamen extra usum
s Astron semper tamen dicent solem acidere et
Oriri, quoties theoriam planetarum non ex
professo tractant. Itaque non est necesse ut
 satendum est ut o dicamus
scripturam faeram impro
iq
Interim marito cenjurae subjecta
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est eorum audacia qui  praetextu usi
quod scriptura sacra non at philosophia sed
satutis qui non satis reverenter de scriptura
ninuis
non ssatis accurate.
Sacra sentire visi sunt, quasi scilicet impropie et vulgari more
cum eo utunt praetextu quodo
sit locuta qi finis ejus non sit docere
philosophiam sed viam salutis. Honorificentius enim et verius
non minus Astronemicis
est agniscere in sacris libris omnes scientiurum
dist
quoque thesauros reconditos laim
etiam Astrononricis vere et proprie locula bere et rectissime locutos
, quod salvo etiam novo systemate
asseri potest, cum ut dix, nullus pistoricus
aut doctor Nam autores sacri aliter sine
absurditate non poterant leqvi etiamsi
millies verum systema no ponatur systema
novum. Et Historicus aliquis ridiculus
foret Ristorius quamcunque demum
in Mathematicis opinionem secutus qui
non solem sed terram oriri aut occidere
dictitaret. Et tane
Ut vero res intelligatur exactios, sciendum est
vulgo nin satis intelligi motus naturum, et in
Motum aliquando relationem involvere, ita ut diverse
di respectu  Motum ita sumi solere, ut: solere
ut nonposse dari
involvat aliquid respectivum, quoniam de motu
absoluto judicari ex phaenomeni et impossibili esse ut
 et dicere debent
+sensa animi
exprimere