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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Optik und Dioptrik LH 37, 2, fol. 115r

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: 0.97.

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One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 116v); this page is its right half.

The machine reads it as

  1. Cartesii explicatio Refractionis
  2. censiore
  3. Radius AB veniens ex medio denso ruminu
  4. CDBF superficiem mediga rarieris
  5. ADB atque incidens in idensius CBDEC refringitur
  6. adperpendicular seu radius refractus BC
  7. angulum facit EBC majorem quam erat
  8. angulus incidentiae
  9. AB
  10. Hujus rationem Cartesius ita reddita supponit
  11. et recte quidem motum AB motum
  12. vel impulsum aut conatum secundum directionem
  13. AB. intelligi posse componi ex dti conatibus
  14. secundum directiones AD. DB.
  15. B in
  16. conatui autem
  17. actare non obstatu superficiem resinem
  18. repringens, sed tantum motui conatui
  19. D. itaque conatus AD tantum iuminuitur u
  20. st posita EC aequali DB, erit BE mino
  21. quam AD.
  22. Supponit itaque Cartesius medium rarius ut aerem
  23. magis obstareradio quam densius
  24. ut lumen, idque conatur explicare comparatione
  25. duarum tabularum mmore dun quarum una superficiem habet
  26. duram et politam, altera tapete instratam. Quemadmodum enim
  27. mollities tapetis. magis globuli in eo decurrentis celeritatem minuit
  28. ita raritas quoque medii lucis vim debilitat
  29. Mitto jam comparationem hanc minime ad rem quadrare
  30. tantum ostendam, etiamsi omnia concedantur quae postulat sartesius
  31. minime rem succedere. Quod ita breviter ostendo. Experimento constat
  32. Tadium BC medio raro rursus egredientem in medum CGH aeque
  33. densum ac erat primum ABd resumere prissam inclinationem, ac
  34. radrum secundo refractum CG esse primo ante refractionem AB
  35. parallelum. Hoc vero ostendam ex ratiocina hypothesi Cartesii
  36. evenire non posse. Nam ladix qui resistentia sive

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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Optik und Dioptrik LH 37, 2, fol. 115r. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068531:0229?run=74