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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8, fol. 69v

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: 0.91.

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One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 70r); this page is its left half.

The machine reads it as

  1. ples to sive a Man a Notion of a Counery ia
  2. which heis a stranser, we produce a Map 10
  3. him. Nou a Mapis only Paper and Inte, which
  4. in themselves have very little likeness 1e Farth,
  5. Mountains, Valleys, Lakes, and Rivers. Tet
  6. none ean deny, but by Proportion and Analosy
  7. they are very instructive; aud if any sould
  8. imarine, thas those Countrys are really Paper,
  9. because the Maps that represent em are made
  10. os it and sould seriousty dra Conclusions
  11. from that Supposition, he vould expose his Dn-
  12. derstandine. Hlis Crace herein plainls mis-
  13. takes the VCC oF Maps, Wrhich arc, not de-
  14. tien d coreprelent Mountains, Valleys, Lakes
  15. and Rivers, to chose who haveno Ideas oF
  16. Them. Maps suprose Men to hare thole
  17. Ideas betorehand; and tho sereral Fisures
  18. and MarKS in MapS are not delign’d to siro
  19. Men chose Ideas, but by Marks aereed on
  20. by theWorid cotienitr choseknomn Ideas:
  21. and ther no more represent these chinso
  22. chemlelres, chan che Noras chat Aand For
  23. Sounds represent Sounds. Thus a Rirer in a
  24. Map represents nOLWater, nor moulderer
  25. sire a Man any Idea oF Water, buE Is a
  26. Mark in a Map aereed to sisnity Water 10
  27. chole whoknom whacWacer is; 25 the mord
  28. acuto is aereed i0 sisnity a certain Sound ta
  29. those nho enem che Sound betore. There
  30. are some Thinss nhich Maps do represent
  31. EOus, and that mich che greacest Clcarnels;
  32. Fuchas the rindins and turnins OF RIrerS,
  33. the Mapoot a Connerr, cc. Buc what cher
  34. donotrepresent chus clearly tons, Is nOL +9
  35. DeunderHood by chemere riem ot MaDS in
  36. ans ocher nas Epan 45 W ordsby agreemeAE
  37. enitus

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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8, fol. 69v. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068331:0138?run=74