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# Catalogue record: 4431 — für Claudio Filippo Grimaldi: Quaestiones
# Incipit: 1. An verum Chinenses ignibus artificialibus excellere super Europaeos
# Date: 1689-07-19
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Grimaldi
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA III,4 N. 213, AA III,4 N. 212
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# Title: LBr. 330 · Grimaldi
# Folios: Bl. 3–5 (from the shelfmark LBr 330 Bl. 3-5): 6 pages, canvases 5–10, page ids DE-611-HS-973086:0005 to DE-611-HS-973086:0010
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Leibnitui schedula, qua varias circa Sinas quaestiones Rm ad
P. Grimaldum misit Romae degentem misit enodandas.
Romae 19. )al. 1689.
Tanti facio notitiam Tuam, Reucerendisime Later, ut colloqui optarem
quotidie, nisi vestrorum negotiorum respectu cupiditatem meam morari
dedicissem .E uid enim optabilius accidere potest homini curioso, quam
virum videre et audire, qui reconditos oltimi orientis thesauros
et abdita tot seculorum arcana nobis aperire potest. Commer-
cia hactenus cum lndis habuimus aromatum, et variarum speci–
erum; nondum scientiarum. Haec vobis debebit Zuropa. Vos Si–
nensium populos inscientiis Mathematicis nostris instruitis.
per vos vicissim nobis sinenses varia naturae arcana debent
quae illis longa obseruatione innotuerunt. Physica enim magis
experimentis; Mathematica rationibus nititur. In his nostra
Europa excellit; sed experimentis chinenses vincunt, quoniam
inflorente a tot annorum millibus imperio traditionesanti-
quorum conservatae sunt, quae in Europa gentium migrationibus
magnam partem periere. Itaque ne me ipsum aliquando ne-
glectae occasionis accusem, et effusa benignitate vestra igna-
ujus fruar, quaestiunculas aliquas in schedula adiecta si-
gnani, quibus, si vacat, aliquid, prout commodum videbitur, a
Fe responderi optem. Caterum nescio, an videris epistolam
quam olim insignis Mathematicus Fucopaeus scripsit deris
quae

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quae ex Sinensibus ad scientiarum nostrarum profectum inquiri
vellet. Eam in Germania habeo. se nondum ei quisquam vestrum
respondit, Eucabo ad Fe mitti, ut vel nunc tandem inde feu-
etis aliquis ad Europam perueniat. Vale, Reuerendissime Pater
et faue
Cultori obsequentissimo
Romae 19. Tul. 1689.
G. G. Leibnitio

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auaestiones.
1. An verum, Chinenses ignibus artificialibus excellere super Zuroparo
et an ignem viridem parare possant, quod nostris Sulcanis adhuc nem
gatum.
2. An Radix Ginseng magnarum vistutum, ut vulgo praedicatus.
3. An non quadam plantae egregiae in Eucopaeas vel saltem Christi-
anas regiones transplantari posse videantur, et quae id prae aliis ob
utilitatem mereantus.
A
4. An exstebus B. Patris Boym Flora hinica, et quaenam reliqua ha-
beantur volumina nondum edita de rebus senicis.
5. Deligno duro instar ferri, et recto, tubis apto.
6. De Metallo quodam anonymo exlorientali trulia allato, cuius osus
propotu decorti Thec praeparundo; est instar laminae ferreae stan-
no obductae, sed tamen exferro non est, et flexilitatem hlabeat.
. An et quomolo Chinenses papyrum deauratum et setta in-
fexant aliis silis, et quaenam habeant peculiaria in papgrificio
8 duomoilo sericum bis in anno colligant.
9Cuiasnam naturae terra, ex qua fit porcellana z an transparens
per se, et an non spes sit, similem in Furopa posse reperiri, et non
vitreationem verae porcellanae calx stanni ingrediatur
10. Cluomodo paaeparent coria, quae postea inflantus ad lectulos
vento plenos faciendo
11. Ar peculiaria quadam habeant insignis otilitatis, vermieum ge-
neca, aliarumque materiarum artificealium, aut artibus mechani-
cis inservientium: item camentorum, quae aquae rignine resi
stunt

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stunt, et otilia etiam adl piscinas obdlucenctas et aquuam continendam
12. Praeparatio laminarum laponensium.
13. En quo differat praeparatio vitri Chinensio ab Europaeo, cum
Chinense sit magit fragile, sed et magis fusile.
14. Ari nota sint quaedam medicamenta probatae virtutis, quae
et in Furopa imitari, aut adnos transferre liceat, ut moxam imi-
tati sunt nostri. Et de operationibus Chinensium Chirurgicis
15. An nulla in Chinensium antiquis monumentis vestigia Geo-
metria demonstratiua, et rerum Metaphysicarum. Et an nota
iam illis fuerit propositio, quae Pythagorae Hecatomben me-
suisse visa est.
16. de Vetustate obseruationum codlestium apud dinenses, et an
non haberi possint ad supplendam Historiam coclestem
17. De Coloraminibus, quae liximo resistunt.
18. De auri foliati impoessione inisericum.
19. Quomodo fiant les Ouattes, materia quadam ex serico, quae
tunicis, calcitris aliisque infercitur.
20. An characteres imprimendos semper incidant ligno; an vero
insculpant materiae cuidam molli sponte indurescenti, ad compen
dium laboris.
21 Hchilne constet de freto inter Asiam et Americam sepse
trionales, et de extremitate terrae Tezzo trans laponeam
et de correctione cartarum Geographicarum illarum regionum
22. Devertendis in Latinum excerptis quibusdam otilioribus
libeorum sinicorum, historicorum maxime et naturalium.
23. De Molendinis ventaneis horizontalibus chinensium, qua
quouis vento moventur.
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24. Ar peculiares quasdam machinas habeant, quas in
Europa nnitari aperae poetium foret, et de modo maximor
lapides portandimultorum hominum opera.
25. Quid de claui Characterum Sinicorum sperandum.
26. Quomodo spiritum ardentem distillent Sinenses ex oriza
nostro non inferiore et qualis eorum sit chymia modusque me-
talla separandi an usi semper cupella et aquis fortibus.
anlauent aurum ex arenis, et an in eo aliquispeculiare?
De quibusdam sinensium artificiis occonomicis agricul-
toribus Kortensibus otilibus et notatu degnis. quibuls
aquibusdam
e Dervitae commoditatibus quae senensium exemplo in
Fucopam introluci mereantur.
29 De Machinis eorum militaribus aliisque otilibus ob-
seruationibus circa rem militarem et nauticam et de
velis plicatilibus, quomodo feant, et quibus otantas ar-
maturis contra istm ictus.
30 De fodinis metallorum et mineralium sinensium, et
quomodo salem communem, nitrum, et alia talia parent.

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