# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com
# Piece: https://leibnizlegible.com/api/records/55567/text
# Catalogue record: 55567 — Leibniz an [Ehler]
# Incipit: Literae Tuae cum Jacobi Papini libello mihi redditae sunt
# Date: 1716-05-10
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Ehler
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=55567&katnr=53455
# The Leibniz-Archiv's transcriptions of the letters of 1716 (pre-edition): https://www.gwlb.de/leibniz/digitale-ressourcen/repositorium-des-leibniz-archivs/laa-transkriptionen-1716
# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-960136
# Title: LBr. 232 · Ehler
# Folios: Bl. 3–4 (from the shelfmark LBr 232 Bl. 3-4 (=53454)): 4 pages, canvases 5–8, page ids DE-611-HS-960136:0005 to DE-611-HS-960136:0008
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-960136&page=5
# Lines: 96 recognised on 4 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.92
# 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.
# Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text.
# Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote".
# After the first blank line, page by page: a "## Folio <label> — <page id>" line ("## Canvas <n>" where no folio label is recorded), "# " lines naming its source image and model, then its recognised lines in reading order, one per line.

## Folio 3r — DE-611-HS-960136:0005
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 4v); this page is its right half.
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/DE-611-HS-960136/jpgs/default/00000005.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 19 lines, status machine
apin lBF. 22
Le
a sans
Su
ebileté et la penetration de Monsreur
ibnit sont connues de toute l’eu-
es
cope; mais particulierement de moy, qui
ose dire, que j’ay eu l’honneur d’avoir
indireetement qu’el que part au commerce
qu’il ent ya environ dixhuit ou dix neus
ans avec feu l’illustre M. Selisson
sur la matiere de la Solerance. M.
Selisson mi’honora d’un exemplaire de
leur lettres reciproques sur ce suset. Ca-
chant, que je travaillois pour lors actuel-
lement sur cette matiere, après l’avoir
deja tres longtemps etudiée avant ma
reunion.

## Folio 3v — DE-611-HS-960136:0006
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 4r); this page is its left half.
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/DE-611-HS-960136/jpgs/default/00000006.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 15 lines, status machine
reunion: sequi le persvadoit disoit. il que
je la traiterois a fond; au lieu que, quant
a luy il n’avoit des sein que de l’effleurer
De dire Monsieur. si j’ay rempli l’atten
te de Peu Mr. Sellisson, c’est au Sublic
à en juger et particulierement à lncon
parable Monsieur Libnitz, dont le
jugement semble etre l’arbitre de tous
les savans de notre Siecle
est dans
cette vue, que je Vous, supplie de lui re-
mettre entre les mains cet exemplaire
dont les fautes dimpression sont corri-
geas de ma main. Se, suis persuade
que

## Folio 4r — DE-611-HS-960136:0007
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 3v); this page is its right half.
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/DE-611-HS-960136/jpgs/default/00000007.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 19 lines, status machine
que l’il appercoit quelques endroits ou je
me sois egare dans le portrait, que je
fais de la Solerance et de ses siertes
indispensables. son equite et son honne-
feté voudront bien me les marguer et
m’en convainere.
est la grace
que j’attends de ce grand homme par
Votre entremise, faisant glorre de me
dire tres parfaitement
Nonsieur
votre tres humble et trei-
obeissant serviteur
se
pere
yi cant
un
d. L Egl. A. R. alE
aths.

## Folio 4v — DE-611-HS-960136:0008
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 3r); this page is its left half.
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/DE-611-HS-960136/jpgs/default/00000008.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 43 lines, status machine
Vir Nobilissime eet Amplme
. libello,
Literae Tuae, cum lacobi papim  mihi redditae sunt set cito avi
iteq anatius slhbu dubeo quod non tantum miltere, sed esi
-
sat bene: Slcipsem n Papirct quiquemeinvensse, qua eli
scubere vouisto 3
potlsem bitaa Bene habet quod ipso es papino jam extincto accepi
non quod grata mihi ejus mors sit, sed quod inutili labore re oxominandi
opusculi levatus sum, de quo nihil ad modum dicere potuissem, quod magnonere
gratum viro foturum fusset. Argumenta quibus utitur sunt mere pyrrhonia
et valent ad omnia reddenda incerta in rebus trumams, et pari jureneque
in Historia, neque in scientiis quiquam Certi consequi possemus, ubi dissentiunt
autores. Ego puto bonam Logicam esse sufficientem judicem controversia
jum ubicunque data sunt hominibus dijudicandi fundamenta, nam sunt
quaedam utei necesse est EHEXEIY, et ubicunque necesse est, ibi etiam
posmns 
licet. Atus hoc ipsum per logicau consequilicer. neque ego aliam
hic postulo, quam vulnarem illam cujus praeceptio Aristoteles
non sophisticis, sed tam en nec demonstrativis
dedit. Sed quoties inter pluia aigumentisfulta dijudican–
dum est, quodnam sit verisimilius, faleor indigere hos Logica
nova de gradibus den similitudinis, cujus praecepta nondum
extant, sed quorum tamen semina nuspiani melius
Invenientur quam apud luri consultos
Quas communicusti
metum observationese Astronamicam Lipties ad Lipsispasoit nus eram ut actis inse reretur
respublica destraflorenti sima habet quod in tantis olenim
inpolomae
regni calamitatibus sibi de quiete graturetur. Sed dabit Deus his
e
quoque finem et speto magui pussorum Monardhae salutarem in ea re
Gaudeo Ampluum Hefferum pralecum
tueri pratenicum in re Astromonica decus. Nescio an apud vos agat,
interventum foret
domina vidu sirdei Cujus maritum nerito magnifecere, qui haec
intelligunt, lamt silium laudabiliter patrissare prussia semer
abundavit degremiis ingeniis, et minu gratum eut intelligre
qui nune
a floreant, et qui plores fructusque minentur
quod superest dule  fave. dabum fannoverae 10 Maji 1716
n jam factum
deprereus