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# Catalogue record: 43410 — Leibniz an Hermann, Basel
# Incipit: Ex nuntio de obitu insignis Viri Dn. Jacobi Bernoulli
# Date: 1705-09-21
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Hermann
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=43410&katnr=45486
# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-973581
# Title: LBr. 396 · Hermann
# Folios: Bl. 20–21 (from the shelfmark LBr 396 Bl. 20-21): 4 pages, canvases 39–42, page ids DE-611-HS-973581:0039 to DE-611-HS-973581:0042
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-973581&page=39
# Lines: 129 recognised on 4 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.87
# Catalogue: Leibniz-Katalog / Arbeitskatalog der Leibniz-Edition (https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/), ed. Arbeitsstelle Potsdam I der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY 4.0.
# Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German.
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## Folio 20r — DE-611-HS-973581:0039
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# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 309, 2026-09-10T21:43:20Z — 34 lines, status machine
Monsferman à Bale
sir pl. Reverende et
doctissime Fautor Hono-
ratissime
a
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Ex nuntio de obitu insignis Viri
jacobi Bernoullii punium doloris
oesi tum ob ingens profundioris doctrinae
On.
tercepi
detrimentum, tum quod me privatum
magno
Uideam inton adjutore communium
amico eximitra.
studiorum. Honoratisimae dominua
Lmeb nomine
rogo ut gratias agas, quod me acerbi
cajus certiorem reddentes affectum sm
festari ce
mei
e affectus certas
Societati scien-
ostendere voluere.
significavi
tiarum Regiae quae Berolim es
jacturam
imentum.
et vestrum et nostrum det
Non daubito magno omnium sensu acceptum
iri; nam acumen viIrI, quod panci aequa
ut
unt
nemo ignoras harum literarum)

## Folio 20v — DE-611-HS-973581:0040
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# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 309, 2026-09-10T21:43:20Z — 28 lines, status machine
ipsius certe opera potissimum
fectum est, ut
qulc meae Medita-
ila
tiones D circa intgresinulis interiorem
Geometriam ampliorom usum haberent
latius pargerentur, quod ille praesait
non tantum tratrem ingenio sissumum
excitando, sed et propria pulcherrima
jnventa conferendo.
vonm
neglectum
mopmoal quid pert
utinam nanc
percat
at
penat nostrum hortari est, curare
cognatorum, A et Cuum quoque vir
eximic, et amicitiae et viciniae
ure. Spero ustima voluntate
defuncti aliquid  de  dods affecti
laboribus schedisue constitutum
delilicari cum plagio
ditam etiam conscribi velim, qua
Egregius Vir OHo Mensenius n
libenter actis suit inseret.
Caterum mas C1. Fardella
luis rebus non ita pridem

## Folio 21r — DE-611-HS-973581:0041
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# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 309, 2026-09-10T21:43:20Z — 26 lines, status machine
ad me ita scripsit, ut putem
mutatis Curatoribus consilia
non esse mutata. Meas
gusnel
vee
a aueo quibus
DC Dn. Joh. Bernonllio diu
est quod nihil didici. Eum nunc
puto apud Vos agere; v
qidi quae in Aclis dixit de mea
ratione construendi problematis
quod proposuerat (oc Curvi datae
un
aequali. Illud miror dipiet
suspicatum nescio quas mirificas
calculi difficultates cum cpudme
tac
unt carculi credo quod exequi
declinassem; qualo mui cum
anud  inena tacillimis egam
cum  quod etiam in levissimis
facio, adeo nunc alia distrahunt.
venit in mentem quadere ut
omnium quae hac detuncrus
in
Actis Diariisque dedit, saltem

## Folio 21v — DE-611-HS-973581:0042
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# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 309, 2026-09-10T21:43:20Z — 41 lines, status machine
naluses colligantur, ut
aliquando edi possint. Interdum
enim non onnuibus harunterum
peritis obviae videttuntur
Calculum
etiam viri nuperum de curvit i gradus asseruan
um par
euit
pem intetligere quae
sive in Ogadicis, sive in aliis pro
insigui acumine Juo subinde agis.
olea inteam
2
noo ita nobis
ut et licet fortuvae Tua faveam
na sia c
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male son
ma
tamen rabet quod ciludo
d b
me
oui
redis, Ut
a ipa a
spem videndi cui viphiabeam; nisi
longius di
v
italicum TKV
gpruamam ticgo honvum
alaure
inuriore itinere
dastratam
praefervisam lustrare
vale
quod superet
meamt, dabam fandire
velr
et
C
de dilssimus