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# Catalogue record: 40347 — Georg Hermann Schuller an Leibniz: Ex literis N.N. 1677
# Incipit: Artificem illum circa ferrum emolliendum saepius compellavi,
# Date: 1677-02-06
# Sender: Schuller — Addressee: Leibniz
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA III,2 N. 009
# Other printings: -E2: Reinhardt, K.: Tschirnhaus, Beiträge… Meissen 1903 S.17.
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=40347&katnr=41428
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-867509
# Title: LBr. 943 · Tschirnhaus
# Folios: Bl. 169r (from the shelfmark LBr 943 Bl. 169r°): 1 page, canvas 339, page ids DE-611-HS-867509:0339 to DE-611-HS-867509:0339
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-867509&page=339
# Lines: 28 recognised on 1 of 1 pages, mean confidence 0.93
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## Folio 169r — DE-611-HS-867509:0339
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 171v); this page is its right half.
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Ex literir N. M. 1677.
Artifice illum circa fem emolliendum
sapius compellavi, ut in ehalybit pro-
prietates per experimenta ab ipso fuit
inguorerem. Hic uit chalybem non solui
in superficie, sed et inmedio, imo per
totam sucum, ut vulgo loquunt, subsr
tiam, nitidissime poliri posse: conlabritie
vero vel incegvalitatem non aliunde
oriri, quam quod ipse ohalybs non satii
ad compartam densitute caduitus sit
prout malleando deduci debebat e pot
Extitaria ad es est. 1677. Plariedatii
Ily a quelque temps que pvour an
pur
Le du lione du p. Cherubin: may entre-
tenu Mr. de lomiers sur cellematiere, et
c est sur ce sujet qu’il m’a montré de
ses cayers, il y ena un chapitre entier
pour faire voir que linveation du binocle
que le . Chemdin si attribue, appartient
au P. Antonio Maria Reita, Cuppuin
allemand, qui l’a construit le premier, et
enseigne dans sonlivie imprime à Arivers
ibas dintitule oculy Lnoch  Elia
et particuliarement dans le 1. tome hoye
4. intitule oculus Aptropicus Binocula.
Mr.de Comiers fait voir geometriquement