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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 10, 18, fol. 12v

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The machine reads it as

  1. Rescripsi ad Dn. Menkenium:
  2. per P lacent quae el. Dn. Lichtscheid ingeniose
  3. excogitavit, circa motus pendulorum non tantum
  4. per Geometriam sed et per experimenta examinandos
  5. Responsum meum ad Papinianas objectiones interim
  6. ad ipsum pervenisse puto. Lineam quam per
  7. puncta describepe docet, (tanquam locum pendulorum
  8. certis oscillationibus determinandis inservientem) comperi
  9. pendulorum
  10. quae nonnihil composita prima fronte visa est, deprehendi
  11. ipsissimam esse parabolam, ecujus (si figura ipsius 6
  12. inspiciatur) vertex sit V axis VEZ
  13. et VA sit quarta pars lateris recti, ita
  14. ut a seu EB sit semilatus rectum. ita ipsius apera
  15. quaedam non ineegantia circa parabolam observata
  16. Et in fig. 7. reperieta rectas
  17. transver siut (ut 12, 14, Y0, etc) esse
  18. omnes ad cuvam Iseu ejus tangentem), normalas.
  19. e
  20. Ex nora parabolae proprisetate; pa
  21. taetiam ta ipsius opera quaecam non inelegantia circa
  22. parabolam observata habemus.

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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 10, 18, fol. 12v. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068172:0024?run=74