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# Catalogue record: 42121 — Detlev Clüver an Leibniz
# Incipit: Inter eos Te collocatum esse, qui scientiam humanam ad sublimius aliqu
# Date: 1680-04-16 (80-04-06)
# Sender: Clüver — Addressee: Leibniz
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA III,3 N. 057
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-958501
# Title: LBr. 163 · Clüver
# Folios: Bl. 4–5 (from the shelfmark LBr 163 Bl. 4-5): 4 pages, canvases 7–10, page ids DE-611-HS-958501:0007 to DE-611-HS-958501:0010
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-958501&page=7
# Lines: 73 recognised on 3 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.92
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## Folio 4r — DE-611-HS-958501:0007
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Six nobilissime ac consultissime
Inter eos le collocatum esse, qui scientiam humanam
ad sublimius aliquod factigium deducere allaborant, abunde
nova quae meditani instrumenta Logistica demonstrant
tuamque mox altiori gradu eptohent industriam, ubi publico
eadem impertire dignaberii. Retaolit mihi Deu. Haakius
Quir german. fide mento sincera et amore eruditionii pro-
movenda prossus insignis) re novis speculationibus Aritkmcticip
detitum, mina quaedam praepanare in computatione numerorum
compendia, quibur a taedium ex infinita eorundem multitudine
exurgens ad concinnam possit redigi srevitatem d operationi
naqueat
perquam facili elegans exstrui conpicationum systema.
ipse autor fuit has itibi ut transmitterem literas. desiderium
enim quo de rebus Thilosopticie e a vulgi notitia renotis disserere
amas hac saltem ratione explere voluit, putans libi ncum
Paud ingratum fore alloquium. Nuhus equidem dubito, quin
Tua in Arithmeticri nova inventa e Logarithnorum d Prostaphui
resium compendia longe sint exuperatura, artic enim combinatona
sex qua omnia fere Natura miracula promanant) egregiam ribi
esse notiriam illa de Horologiis emendandis epiotola testatur, quam
ejalli sivi insernere ephemeridibus: quaravis tuam ibidem mentem
haud bene assequi possim dum Alb dignitatem deprimendo
scientiam combinandi longe universaliorem deraedicas ipsit
Algeta ratiociniis; cum tamen omnes ileu regula, quibus ars combina
toria superbit et Algebra deducantur imonabsi illa nire empirica
atabularis sit. Ea enim Algebra videtur exiMentia, ut reliquas
scientias omnes suo amplertatur ambitu nullamque nisi primam
rationem ex qua sua deducit vonnaca agnoscat suporiorem
quonam ergo sensu tun sint interpretanda verba, quaso erponni
clarius. Qinmo si tua nova in Anthncticis dogruata, spino
sas illas Radicum extractiones conigunt, animum te applicuisse

## Folio 4v — DE-611-HS-958501:0008
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auguror enodando admirabili illi problemati, quo simples a
composito ac primum a facto discornitur. Nihit erin in scientia
Numerorum abstrusini illa regula, qua oblatur quivii vel simplex
vel compositus agnoscitur. Vulpes Arithmeticorum hic ad magnan
nomerorum primorum Tabulam confugere solet; unde contando
disquirent ea, qua universali quadam notione cognita esse
e
debebant. Ac sanic absque notitia hujus problematii vir utea spiranda
sunt compendia alicujus momenti; magimos enim numeros datoi
ad minimos in eadem proortione reducere,  quas vis aequationa
as
reterere, edoror à commensurabili distinguere, hi sunt illi
scopuli, quibus superandis infinita quaedam rationum unio suppo.
nitur. Alisom erim extratendi radices methodum in progressionibui
numerorum latitare, quic est qui negare audet? cum vulgarii illa
praxis more sit analogica, dum alqui ejusdem figurae numori
assumuntur velut jam cogniti: totum scilicet mystorium in
divino illo partium cum toto consensa reconditum est, ac quosnam
in hisce speculationibus progressus fecerim suo tempore me
demonstraturumspero, modo enim rebus a calculis Astronomicis
adsectus iis haud varare possum. Gratissima interim erit, copiosior
s
quaedam expositio tui instrumenti, sive generalis quadam descrictione
illarum opirationum, quac adeo pronopte ejus beneficio peragere potes
sive nudo saltem compendiorum expressio, a historia: dabitur
enim hinc forsam occasio si ita placuorit pletribus tecum
his de rebui disserendi, tuam interim benevolentiam requonsione
quadam designatam debito exceptum sum affectio
Amplissimum Tum victutii
cultor Audisissimus
Dethlevus Clavens:
d. 6 Aprit
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Labek Condimi

## Folio 5r — DE-611-HS-958501:0009
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## Folio 5v — DE-611-HS-958501:0010
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