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# Catalogue record: 62207 — Leibniz an Gerhard Meier: Ex responso
# Incipit: Miror a quoquam posse quaeri utrum Cartesii philosophia a rei mathemat
# Date: 1691-04
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Meier, G.
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II,2 N. 111, AA I,6 N. 271
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-859609
# Title: LBr. 627 · Meier, G.
# Folios: Bl. 9–10 (from the shelfmark LBr 627 Bl. 9-10 (=K_7687)): 4 pages, canvases 17–20, page ids DE-611-HS-859609:0017 to DE-611-HS-859609:0020
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Amalishuro Viro
G. L. Leibnitio
G. Mejy  S.
Mutto quem dudum pollicitur cum Leguerum juactis tiblio
seca nostrae quedastina nisis. Tu illic utire, fiiere
Nisit moa eit quo minus affatim prorsus ad quaad
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nsu Tili este queam, faxis ut imperata intelliga.
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publice at privatim detensi ed stabilitum it, satte
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monstri quid alre suc videtur.
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## Folio 9v — DE-611-HS-859609:0018
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Centia queat. Ego enim
haltenus nonugi erertiorat
in eam ingrestum inguurae adtribui, muetaque Nolis
des Cartes puisapponere
atque in postulatis collocar
quisquam
credidi, autequam istas meditatines ingrediat
Ita Areto, Celet vir et me ama.
Btreuo. d. 25 Mazii 1691.
Dabam
Quo evadent res velliae e obsidio Mantium
Hannoniae.
IS. Intorca dum consertia extibtr ad vos
Morte ex prognato sut eqoue lilera
gmendar fierda
ex cumt,
tar Hagam
Tabellario. Rescribe, quod
enipo rogo vel verbo
Letuerum Te recepisse
ex qesponso:
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tiror a quoquam posse quare ilium Cartesii Eclososia
rei mathematicae impetis intelligi possit, cum ipse Cartesius
aliquolies sit professus nam physicam nihil aliud esse quam isesimon
cormelriam, id est serentiam de magnitudine figuro X motu
nihul mugnopere nodum miu quidem praestitisse videatur
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silenata in usum scholarum pta comparata esse debenti
ut favenes ad erum pariter B bonorum autorum notiliam
esti et medici receptam
manu ducantur, et cum Iucolggi
cilosoprium in usum quum transtuleriat eam vecul basiu
esse debere censeo, nec vetens doctrinae arcem de motiendam
aut a fundamentis disjiciendam sed potius ornauvam novis
Mucturis, pavimentis, tabulatis, posturs signis hortis fontibu
qui secus faciet ile e veterbus carebit e nova non satis
asequetur. ipsu certe Cartescus Quantas quantus est ex velerm
setione factus est, quamvis id callibe dissimularit, sed
prodit id ipse stylus, ut Hultius recte ammadocitit
rebus applicatam. Est autem esyussica, tius potissuma et actitissima
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Mlullis quaeque annis flexiae apud sesurtas literis operam
ed
vero ut quod essres est dicam, mihi ridiculi videtur novam
quaudam pilosoesiam iut sectam animo concipere quae Cartesiana
appelletur. praestat polissimas qualque veritates ordine fradele
uundecunque excergtas landatis tamen primis antoribus cum
artesius ipse suafleraque ex veferibus sublegerit, utrque juventus
ad tontes ducendie rcentiores quoque alue praclara
habent, quae a cartesio flustanquaeras venius duo sunt
cenera hominum vi disciplinis dant operam. Alis superficiaria
quandam cognitione  quarunt, i fere notitia vocabulorur;
fechnicorum sunt contenti x vetera ac pecepta magis quam
nova et pancis cognita requirent, ali; ad intimaveritatis
penetrane contendunt, hos suni autori manci pari sequite
est et profectibus inimicum. Unde etiam fartum
est, ut puri puli Cartesiam nihit novi proestiternt
invenerint, merosque egerial magistri para prastas
exemplo) orolasticorum
p. s. siquis perperet philolophiam Cartesiana
Methodo Mathematica lradere quemadmodum coepit
spinosa, il opere, uetium faceret; eoscilicet modo qui
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detracta
ta enim velut veste sermonis
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