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# Catalogue record: 3973 — [für Viviani?]: [De praestantia systematis Copernicani. Erste Fassung]
# Incipit: Praeclare a Cicerone dictum est:
# Date: 1689
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Viviani
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA VI,4 N. 377
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/00068187
# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 11, 14
# Folios: Bl. 11–12 (from the shelfmark LH 35, 11, 14 Bl. 11-12): 4 pages, canvases 21–24, page ids 00068187:0021 to 00068187:0024
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## Folio 11r — 00068187:0021
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praeclare a cicerone dictum
est: opinionum commenta delet
dies, naturae iudicia confirmat. Id
circa verum Mundi systema, quod
a Petlagoraei jam celetra verant,
indies experimur. Novis enim quotidie
inventis pythageoraec Mundi systea
magis magisque exta
Hypothesis ad summam veri similitudinem
acces accedit. Ut jam vix quisquam sit
Astor intelligentiorum Mathematicarum
non praeferendam fateatur, si modo
qui
per superiorum decreta liceret.
sensuram
Mihi vero videtur acrae Congregationiun Galilaeum censuram
non p
accipi debere
ptaloem gabitaeum cundemnantis non puisse propositum
in gateem
eam esse mentem, eoi condemnate quasi eos in universum imne
quam
non
qui Hypothesin Coperuriveriorem credunt,
tantum
Sed quiq ad temere eam propugnant,
hest
et scriplura lactae verb et scripturam
laudacius
Saciam minus proprie locutam, censent;
sed hodie Htodic autem omnes rerum
intelligentes fatentur Tantis hodie nove repertis
argumentis adjuvari. Copernicanos ut temeritas
amplius
illis imputari, non possit et Scipturae
facae verba attentius, considerata
nil obstare Coperrico, d denon
opernicani fatentur sccipturam
saciam proprie  et apte fuisse
ocutam, 
etiamsi ipsi suiplores Coperci
ex de schola Copernici prodiisse fingerentur
Mingentia

## Folio 11v — 00068187:0022
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Undeletlun p. Mersemmus in
Gallia et P. Honoratus Fabry, et
alii complures statuunt
Unde no
porro et mihi nova
iitaque intoresse et Reipublicae
sitermiae, et ipsius Ecclesiae judico, ne
libertas philosophica videtur, ut ne
amplius obex ingeniis in hoc argumento
neve
ponatur, neeodversariis calumniandi
ausa detur, quasi veritas in italia
quadam servitate opprimatur
I vero et vel ideo quo
Quod ut admoneam auam studiosius
ausam imihi dedere cogitationes quaedam
quae cam nobis arcana suyste matis
et plysicas motuum coelestium
causas pro bona parte aperire videnti
quae hunc pancis attingam.
e
Cum nempe vigerem Replerum
ex Tychonicis observationibus etque medi
lationibus propriis mira quadam feli
cita
pulcerrimal
a req leges quasdam
eneralesotuum Coclestium invenisse sic
subis satis phaenomenis valde
satis facientes, cogis cogitationem
sed in causis plus
ogitavi ego
saepe merum cogitavi an causas
e
detenere
earum fuo  invenire possem
quod tandem annis abhinc aliquol,
s unde appalebat
intolerabilu

## Folio 12r — 00068187:0023
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unde facile apparebat
physicas quasdam lationes
habesse debere; ego diu in
sa
e causarum investigationem
incubui, tandemque subita quadam
luce rausta Supra ipsam spem
mihi visus sum magna voti parte
potitus.
R Juveni enim Leges planetariae
(primariouo
hae sunt (1) Planetam erri in Ellipsi in cujus foco sol
in Ellipsi (2)
ejus demallinetae
empora esse sectoribus Ellipticis
ex sole abscissis proportionalia
(Z) quadrata as
tempor penodicu diversorum
planelarun esse ut cubos mediarum
a sole distantiarum.
eu inveni demonstravi
Ex lege 2)a
planetam Circular. Harmonice
planetam atque adeo aethera
ejus deferentem circulari 
harmonice id sis ut tempora
Nam generali id est sic ut
positis distantiis a sole existentibus
progressionis Arithmeticae, sint velocilatis
cicculaos progressionis Harmonicae; et contra
ingeni
Generale enim Theorema demonstra,
si corpus  mobile moveatur motu composito ex
circulatione harmonira circa aliquod centrum, et
motus quocunque paracentrico respectu ejusdem centri
describere areas temporibus proportionales. et contra
Et vicissim si has describat motum ejus in dictam
circulationem resolvi posse.
deinde investigavi quaenam debeat esse lex
motus paracentrici seu attractionis ad solem

## Folio 12v — 00068187:0024
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