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# Catalogue record: 55868 — Overbeck, 15. Calendis Augusti, an [Leibniz]
# Incipit: Adio exacte convincunt
# Date: 1715-08-01
# Sender: Overbeck — Addressee: Leibniz
# Other printings: Fichant: De l'horizon de la doctrine humaine, Paris 1991, S.92.
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=55868&katnr=36884
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-861255
# Title: LBr. 705 · Overbeck
# Folios: Bl. 42 (from the shelfmark LBr 705 Bl. 42): 2 pages, canvases 83–84, page ids DE-611-HS-861255:0083 to DE-611-HS-861255:0084
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-861255&page=83
# Lines: 57 recognised on 2 of 2 pages, mean confidence 0.92
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## Folio 42r — DE-611-HS-861255:0083
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erstastris Magnificex
Domine mi Gratiosissime
Adeo exacte convincunt quae super aevosaors disseruntur, ut reluctari non liceat
quamque certum est si plures statuantur vaccae, quam quot pilos vacca habet hirsutissima
aliquas vaccas habituras esse pilos numero aequales, tam hoc quoque exploratum erit.
libros redituros plane eordem, si scribantur infinitis seculis novilibri–
Calculavi quoque numerum librorum et inveni eum fore 1000 etr: cum 100000000
zifris atque si 100 etc: cum 50zifris implere potest totum Orbem Pythagoricum
granis arenae, Numerus ille librorum implebit orbes 99,999,950 Zifris praemissa
unitate numeratos id est 1000 etc: cum 99, 999,950 Zifris tam parum hicnu
n100 Literre ponan merus decrescit tanto saltu a grano arenae ad orbem Pythagoricum, quisa
necdum satis rectificata
ne numerus ipsa etiam aeternitate vastior videtur.
Caeterum, ne illa, quae alias meditatus eram perscribenda remissi
onem Bissertationis quam dudum descripsi impediant, illa in commo
a
usque
dius tempus suspensa manent. Fata scholastica mirum in modum sunt mus
Ia emendatus vedetur Duus Praesul noster ut nihil ab eo mali publice
oriturum putem. Sed proh doloretiam nihil boni; ita jam scholam
plane inter res pro derelictis habitas censere incipit. cum tamen tali
Viro schola in multis rebus indigeat. Haec vero jactura valde exigua
Credo enim si vel maximus Fautor scholae foret Dnus Praesul, eum nihil
obtinere posse pro juribus scholae vindicandis quae jam plexo cursu
pessum eunt. Hac omnia tamen non efficiunt ut conditionem meam de
teriorem putem quam cum schola minus ruinis erat obnoxia, nondum e
nim de sustentatione in periculosum, et turbationum publicarum metu
non amplius oppugnor. Id unicum nonnihil me male habet quod scholasti
cae occupationes obicem ubique ponunt, ne possim frequentius literarum commerciu
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uti cum Vestra excellentia ex quibus solis ita me proficere video, ut quaecunque
tempora aliis studiis impendo, us nihil me didicisse existimem, quam in re
opera a Vestra excellentia impensa longe majori Honoris gratique animi
monumento aeternum celebranda ericat, quam quale monumentum mea ven
borum tenuitate unquam poterit elaborari. Nuelius proinde ubique terrarum
quanto
Vestrae Excellentia
Servus Subjectissimus et cultor ve
nerabundus
tanto affectu esse potero
Adolph= T heobaldus Overbeck
Praesupposui
Numerum
Literarum
valde exiguum
scil. 10.
tur, bis tot +
veniunt.
frae
Daban Calendis Augusti
Anno 1715.

## Folio 42v — DE-611-HS-861255:0084
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Signatur: 1Br. 705, (84]- 42v C)