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# Catalogue record: 4430 — für Claudio Filippo Grimaldi: Quaestiones
# Incipit: (1) An verum Chinenses ignibus artificialibus excellere super Europaeo
# Date: 1689-07-19
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Grimaldi
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA III,4 N. 201, AA III,4 N. 212
# Other printings: -Leibniz: Das Neueste von China, Hrsg.: Nesselrath/Reinbothe, 1979, S.87-89 (dt.:S.84-86). -Hesse: Niedersachsen und China, 1987, S.22-23 (dt.& teilw.Faks.). -Widmaier: China, 1990, S.4-6.
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=4430&katnr=45062
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-973086
# Title: LBr. 330 · Grimaldi
# Folios: Bl. 1–2 (from the shelfmark LBr 330 Bl. 1-2): 4 pages, canvases 1–4, page ids DE-611-HS-973086:0001 to DE-611-HS-973086:0004
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# Lines: 181 recognised on 4 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.89
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Grimaldi
sed k. P.
everenduume pater
tuam
Tanti facio notitiam vestram, ut colloqui
optarem quotidie, nisi vestrorum negotiorum
trespecti mihi cupiditatem meam morari
didicissem. Quid enim optabilius accidere potest
homini curioso, quam viro colloqui virum videre
et audire, qui reconditos ultimis  crientis
thesamos, et abdita tot seculorum ariana
nobis aperire potest. Commercia hactenus
cum judis habuimus aromatum, et
variarum speciorum, nondum scientiarum,
Ha vobis debebit Europa. vos sinenselem posulos
se nostrisa,
in scientiis Mathematicis instruitis. per
vos vicissim nobis Ainenses varria maturae
arcana debent quae illis longa antiquitatis
tradi observatione innotuerunti physica
enim mags experimentis Mathematica
rationibus nntitur; in his nostra Europa excellib
sed experamentis, Chinenses viacunt, quoniam
stante a tot florente a tot annorum
e
millibus imperio traditiones autiquorum
conservatae sunt, quae in Europa gentium
migrationibus magnam partem periere
Ego itaque ne me ipsum aliquando
neglectae occasionis accusem et effusa
denignitate vestra gnaveas frnar
est quaestiuncultas aliquas in scheduta
adjecta signavi de quibus si vacat aliquid, stront comodum
lespondui
e
a teannitati optem.
aterum
nescit an videris Epistolam, quam
Olim
Kepterus insiguis Mathematicus
Eucopaens scripsit de iis quae asins ex
e
exsinensium regionibus
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videbeur

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ex vivis rerum ex sinensibus ad
scientiarum, nostrarum profectur
inquiri vellet. Ego ad manus non habeo
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si nondum ei quisquam vestrum respondit.
ad Ecs
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nd tandem inde fructus aliquis ad
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ignibus
(1sAn verum Chinenses artificialibus excellere super
Europoros, et an ignem liridem parare possint quod
nostris Vulcanis adrur negatum
2 sn Radix Ginsenus magnarum virtutum, ut vulgo
egregiae
3 An non quaedam plantae in huropaeis vel saltem
praedicatur
Ouistianas legiones trans plantari posseinde antur mere
posse mereantur _ quae id ob prae alis d
p
videnuud
utilitatem mereantur
est An extel B P. Boym Flora sinica
et quoram
otuliqua habeantur volumina nontum edim et, lebustincis
de ligno duro instar ferri et recto, tubis apto
(b, de Metallo quodam Angnymo, d exorientali
S
decocti
judia allato, cujus usus pro Tpro potu ipsius herbae
c
hee praeparando. est instar laminae ferree ctanno
obductae, sed tamen ex ferro non est et flexlitatem habeat,
7 Anquomoito Chinenses 2 Cha papyte deaptitar
nn
dialies, et quaera habeant
nrai in papyrificio
At vericum bis in anno colligant et quomodo
Jeu quomodo
Cau tragsparens per se
4) Cujus nam natura terra ex quaft porcellana
et au non spes sit similem in huropi posse reperici
verae
et  non vitreatio porcellanae calx lanni ingrediatur
(10) G
rem
aciendo
Cinsigiris alilitarte
ad lectulos vinte plenos, et nn Recplic
d habeant
e
fimali
npr An peculiaria quodam habeant omentorain
serbientu
autaliorum, item caementorum
culra, quae aquae, ignive resistunt et quae utilia
continendam
etiam ad piscinas obdurendas et aquam excludendam
(C2, Praeparatio Laminarum japonensium
(3) in quo differat praeparatio vitri chinensis abhuropaer
cum chinense sit magis fragile, sed et magis fusile
114) An nota sint quaedam peculiaria Medicamenta erfica
aut adgos harsfeare
probatae virtutia quae et in imropa imilariiceat ut
Et de operationibus CEinensium Clturgicis
Moxam imitati sunt, nostri autiquis
15) An nulla in Chinensium monumentis vestrgia seometriae
demonstrativa, et dum Metasysicarum. Et an nota
jam  iis fuent propositio quae pythagorae Hecalombam
Meruisse visa est

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de
Giglio silvestae, solus
(16) Vetustate observaivum coelestium apud sinenses, et
avan non haberi possint ad supplendam Historiam coelestem
(17) de coloraminibus quae lixivio resitunt
de auni cmpressione visericum
(18) de aure foliati impressione in sericum
19) Quomodo fiant, les W Ouattes materia quodam
ex serico, quibu quae tuncis altisque dosts, aliisque rebus
imprimendos semper
 Culcitris, aliisque infercitur
20) An no characteres insrbant in sidant lingo
ligno, an vero inscuetsant materae cuidam molli
sponte indurescenti: ad compendium operis laboris
L
velasiam
21 Nihil ne constet de Retre inter Europam
et Americam septentivnales et de extremitate
terro. 10370 trans saponiam, et de correctione charla
geogra rear istam Vyomuni.
An constet
non edi possunt excerpta utiliora
22 Uibrorum de verlendis in latinum excerptis quibusdom
e
utilioribus ubrorum sinicorum cristoricorum. maxime
et medicorum. et naturalium.
ventaneis
De Moteudinis torifontalibus chinensium, quae
quovis venio moventur
(24) An pecurares quasdam Machinas habeant
25
quas in Europa imitari opero ppatium foret
pet de modo maximos expides portandimulloru hominem opera
Quid de clavi characterum finicorum sperandum
26) Quomodo spiritum ardentem distillent
nostro non inferma es
sineuses ex orifa, et quae habeant vina
et qualis sit eorum ryunit modosus mrtalla
aecedanea
separmit aunti sempe cupeleaet aquis fortibus
au lavent augum exarems eranix eoaliquid peculia
2
um artificas cond
agricalloriones horteasions eset
micis inh qutilibus et notato dignis
quibusdam
28) de vita commoditatibus,  qua
sinensium exemplo in Europam introduci
mererentur
29) de machinis ectam nulitaribus alisque utilibus observavibus
crcarem mililarem et nautrca et de velis plicatilibus
quomodo fiant et quibus utantur amaturis contra ictus
30) de fodinis metellorum et mineraliuo sinensibuis, et quomod
satemommunem nitrum, et alia tacia parent.