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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 3, 8 D, fol. 1r

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.99.

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One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 2v); this page is its right half.

The machine reads it as

  1. entamen de physicis motuum
  2. coelestium Rationibus
  3. stronomi Superiorum temporum, ut Machinam Mundi expli
  4. carent, orbes solidos commenti sunt, aliis rursum exiguis
  5. orbibus mobilibus insertis excavatos, quibus infixi planetae
  6. compositis r pro Astronomi libitu motibus, circumagi
  7. possent. Nec contemnenda illa meditatio fait, in ea infantia
  8. philosophiae, saltem enim imaginationi regendae inservire poterat,
  9. sed a veritate naturae longissime dissidebat.
  10. Primus Tycho apparatum ex coelo sustulit, orbesque fluidos et
  11. phaenomenis et rationibus consentire ostendit, quem posteriore
  12. magno applausu sunt secuti. Sed inde visa est augeri difficultas,
  13. neque enim apparebat, quid in libero aethere regeret planetas,
  14. intelligentias enim gubernatrices affingere, per absurdum, et divino
  15. artificio indignum merito videbatur. Sympathiae autem et
  16. Magnetismi, etsi quadam Analogia juvarent, menti tamen non
  17. Non ita pridem
  18. tandem Galilaeo Corricellio, Cartesio, aliisque Thilosophiae
  19. restauratoribus in mentem venit, Materiam atheream ad
  20. Oceani cuiusdam morem constanti motu actam, secum rapere planetas
  21. Res ergo eo rediit, ut Orbes quidem deferentes sed fluidi
  22. ad motus coelestes explicandos requirantur. Sed quomodo
  23. ex certa eg regula motuum aetheris liquii, orirentur motus
  24. planstarii Leges, nemo quod sciam explicare aggressus est, et
  25. ipse Cartesius velut desperatum silentio transmisit.
  26. eplerus, vir maximi sane ingenii, Tychonicis observationo
  27. adjutas, cum multa tentasset, varieque phaenomena numeris
  28. explicata improbo labore comparasset, tandem duas invenit

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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 3, 8 D, fol. 1r. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068312:0001?run=74