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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 1

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: 0.78.

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The machine reads it as

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  4. SPR IN C.
  5. HC ThcOry OF Sprinss, thousti
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  7. Machematicians ot this AgC
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  9. by any. Ir it no about cighteen
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  11. but delignins to apply ic to lome
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  13. publistrins chereot.
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  15. Scc the Experiment chac made ouc this Theory tried
  16. at White-Hall, a5 also my Spring Watch.
  17. About Eroycars (incc Iprinted this Theory in an
  18. Anaoram at theend ot my Book oF theDescriptionSOF
  19. HeliolcoDes, viz ceriino55stt nuid est, Dt tensio (ic
  20. vis; Thatis, ThePomer ot anr spring is in chelame
  21. proportion mith ehe Tention thereot: That is, iFone
  22. porrer sretch or bend it onc space, tro will bendit
  23. erro, and threc will bend it chrec, and (o formard.
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  25. ins ic is verr cahe.
  26. Take then a quantier of even-dramn Wire, cither
  27. Scecl, Iron, Or Brals, and coyl it on an even Cy.
  28. linder into a Helix oF what lensth or number oFturns
  29. vou please, then curn the ends ot the Wire into
  30. Loops, by one oF rrhich suspend chis coyi upon a
  31. nail, and by che orher sustain the meishe thac vou
  32. roula hare to extend it, and hansins on several
  33. Wcirhes obserre exactly cowhat length cach oF the
  34. ireistus do extend it berond chelensth chat its omn
  35. eishe dochsrecct ic to, and rou halI find chac it
  36. One
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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 1. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0007?run=74