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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 4

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: 0.90.

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The machine reads it as

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  2. descend to o, then C will make it descend 10 p.
  3. HIto que ItOr, K tOs, L FOF, MtOn and NtOW, EEC.
  4. 50 thac X 0 MaII BC OnC (PaCC, XP, 2, X9, 3, Xr, 4.
  5. X59 5, Xt, 6, X U, 7, XW, 8.
  6. The lecond figure represents a Watch Spring cor-
  7. led in a Spiral by C AB BBD, Whole end C is Axed
  8. t0a pin or Axis immorable, into the end ot erhrich
  9. the Axis oF a (mall lighe Wheel is inferted, upon
  10. irtich it moves; the end D is tixed to a pin inthe
  11. Rim oF the Whcel Y yy y, uxon erhich is corled a
  12. TinaII (IIK, co the end ot Whrieh is Axed a Scale Le re-
  13. ceire the meighes. Toche Frame in Wrtich chele are
  14. contained is lixed ehe hand or Index 2 ehen trring
  15. rith the Former eighes puc inco the scale l, voû
  16. Will Ena that il P puc into che Scale P SinkS the BOL-
  17. tom oF ic X 100, then C ill sink ic to p, and Ht0 9.
  18. IEOr, R EOS, L. tO t, and Z Will point at 1, 2,3, 4, 5, 6,7.8
  19. on theWVhecl.
  20. Therrialswich a Rraighe ire, or a straighe piece
  21. oF mood laid Hlorizontal arc (0 plain they necd not
  22. an explication br figure, and the mar of trrine upon
  23. air Lhare lons lince explained in my Micoera-
  24. Phia by AgUTCS.
  25. From all irtich it is verr evidentthat the Rule Or
  26. Lar oE Nature in every springins Body is, FnaE
  27. theforce or porver chereotto reltore it Pelt to itsna-
  28. cural polition is altrars proportionate to theDistance
  29. Or space it is remored cheretrom, Whether ic be by
  30. rarefaction, or separation oF its parts the one Fromthe
  31. other, orby a Condensation, or crodino ot those
  32. partsnearer torecher. Nor is ic observable in thele
  33. bodus onlr, buc in all other Epringy bodies haclo.
  34. ever, Wrhether Metal, Wood, Stones, baked Earchs,
  35. Flair, Horns, Silk, Bones, Sines, Glato, and the likc.
  36. Respect being had to the particular Agures oF the
  37. bodics bended, and the adrantagious or diladvan-
  38. tasious rays oF bendins chem.
  39. FFOM

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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 4. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0010?run=74