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# Catalogue record: 47594 — Des Bosses an Leibniz, Hannover
# Incipit: Postremas meas, Litteris P. Orbani setas
# Date: 1708-01-30
# Sender: DesBosses — Addressee: Leibniz
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II (assigned, not yet published)
# Other printings: -Gerhardt, PhilSchr 2 S.346-347 (teilw.). -Janet (2.Aufl.) 2 S.484 (teilw.). -Zehetner: Briefwechsel mit Des Bosses, 2007, S.91-92.
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# Title: LBr. 95 · DesBosses
# Folios: Bl. 55–56 (from the shelfmark LBr 95 Bl. 55-56 (=K_5511)): 4 pages, canvases 113–116, page ids DE-611-HS-958680:0113 to DE-611-HS-958680:0116
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llastressime Vomine
artorle colentime
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ostremas meas, Luteris P. 6obani Setas ad te perrenisse
Spero.
Remitto numc tandem codicem alterum cum residuo
penso descripstors nostri, qui etiam codicis hujus prae Hetere
illo acutarium interserta carta notavit, latamque nuper
a le conditionem Tubens accipit.
Evenit quod metuebam: Reverendissimuis Suttraaancus noster
libellas gallecos de Spiritu novorum Augustini discipulorum a
e repetit. Equidem euruvi Leodio mitu enemplar aliud, quod
si advenisset, hun fasciculo cddibissem, ut alterum, quod iam legen
00 absolvisse te confido, restituere possem.
Ante dies aliquot. Commodatos auqju libros magisterium artys et
naturae inscriptos. autbre Frauciseo Lana nostro. quos dum evelvo
tucivo inarqumentum que ex metu penduli demonstrace se putat
quantitatem physice consideratam non esse in infinitam divisibilem
sed pose finitas ejus divisiones tandem cevendu ad partes aded exiquas
De

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quae natura sua sint physice seu realit indivisibiles quamvis
neuim
non concedat esse metaphysce dedivisibiles, uti sunt puncta qua
anicla
vocant inflata. Verba estu quae pagna 371 4omi primi
inremuntur non refero. quod autorem illum in bibliotheca
tua esse non dubitem. in omnem tamen eventum pono primun
ex
ejus syllogismum, quo totuis argumenti summa perspici potest:
Remete pendulo à sita in que naturaliter quiesat seu a linca
diretionis post determinatum numerum semivibationum
iterum acquirit quietem un eadem qua pouus erat unea:
Sed si spatrum per quod movetur esset divisibile in infinitum
punquam posset quiescere, ergo illud spatium non est ita divisibile
supposito jam spatium locale componi eu punctis physicis, en eodem
motu penduli moclas in motu locali admittendas esse arquit.
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Cg0 ex principus, quae a t doctus sum, censeo negandam esse
, Syllogisma propositionem, cujus ventatem actor suppo-
nit potius quam nobat. gratum mihi ent intellegere an mentem
hac in re tibi mentatissima sim assecutus. nam quod morullus
spectat, doctus sum satis ex scheda quadam tica ad Clanssimum
Fsucher drairo parscensi inserta, re eas perinde ac saltum en
natura refuere.
Colonia moneor prodisse Antuerquae dissectationem 1 contra
Antominum Reginatdum sub titulo: De mente S. Concily
Pridentini circa gratiam physice praedeterminantem
Autore Liberio Gratiano. Qui quantum ex omnibus
collegitur est idem qui Theodoru Eleuthenum contra Augustinum
Le Blarc.

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Ex responsime
Lanae gecstri cungiterum artis et naturae Ieffebyti extat, hic non habemu
Malta sunt in illo scrplore egregia ubi ad Csurficam specialem descendit sd in speculationt
non aequi valet vim argament ejus ex is quae ponit nonsalis intaligi. Vellem
explicarent distincte in eatem suam, qui puncta inflata nobis venditant
Y
Oxsice indivisibilia, metalsusice divisibilia. Quaererem quid malhemalice divi
sibiliane an udi indi visibilia arbitrentur.
Queod
Rigorose
supciest Vale vir manime. dabam Hudehae
Rigerise loquendo nullam in ratura gorpus unquam ad perfectam
30 Januari 1708. quietem reducitur, atque adeo ne pendulum quidem,
si tamen fingiuus sabstrahendo ab aliis impussibus peudutum quetuis
semivibrationa (ob ipsistontiam scilicet aescis) determinatam
C
amittere virium partem, et quidem semper aequalem, quae praecise
metiatur totam vimo penduli, utique novissima aliqua semivibratione exhauriri
necesse est. Sed etsi vis amittenda non metiatur vim penduli tamen haec destruetur
ponamus in aere esse quandam (exiguam licet tenacitatem et ut sic dicam
viscositatem, ad quam superandam vi aliqua opus sit ut revera remse habeo puto
munifestum est empetum nenduli eousque posse debilitari, ut non amplius aerem perrum
R
puse
pere queat. Idque continget, licet aliquando licet non perfecte situm verti-
Mustrissimae; Dominationis Tua
calem acquisierit, cum scilicet ab eo tam parum abest, ut nimis aliqui descen
dentis grabitatio tenacitatem vincere nequeat, tunc puim intercisci-
entur quae superessent vibrationes, si minor aeris tenacitas foret sed
si vis quavis semborsiatione amittenda metiretur exacte vim penduls
seu haberet se ad eam ut unitas ad numerum rationalem integrum
exhauriretur vis penduli in situ verticali praecise. Itaque
1
etiam in eo erionea est Lanae positio quod vult necessario quetem
fieri debere in situ verticali, cum fortasse nunquamsitus penduli
perfecte sit talis. Abstraho trunc animum ab alia quadam aeris
resistentia, quae est, ut sic dicam, respectiaa, et tanto major
quanto majorcorporis celeritas. In enim nunquam morum
plane sistet. Etsi semper immnualaq vedsi fhorationes
ptonamus fieri in vacuo id est in medio lujus resistentia nulla pruntur
fingatur; erunt tamen aliae causae vimscenduli diminuentes,
velat flexus ipse fili, qui quantulacunque vi, aliqua tamen opus habet,
aliaeque id genus causae quae idem efficiunt quod aeris tenacitas.
Aoduchssimus in Clnsto
Servus Bartholomans
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