LBr. 330 · Grimaldi, fol. 46r
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: 0.96.
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One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 47v); this page is its right half.
The machine reads it as
- Locutus sum cum R. S. Grimaldi, qui exchina ad-
- venit, socius et successor destinatus P. F erdinandi
- Verbiest in Mathematico tribunali. Narrauit
- mihi, Sinenses iam recepisse nostrum calculandi modum
- calami ope, admissis characteribus vacuis, zero signifi-
- cantibus. Nam ipsi habent progressionem denarii, cente
- narii, millenarii etc. Antea Chinenses calculabant instrum
- mentaliter. Idem pater dexit mihi, esse circiter 200. (ele
- menta Chinensium characterum, ex quibus componantur
- caeteri ised nimis laxe sumantur, exempli grutia, charactes
- cordis significat omnis generis affectus: character carnis
- significat crus, tumorem, intrimentem. Caracteres autem
- isti felementales sumti forte initio ex picturis rerum
- laciymae, stilla, fluida, significantur tribus punctis, hoc
- olim in stillae modum. Quatuve puncta protribus faci–
- unt flamma, erant olim poo punctis pictae stillae et flamu
- ma.
- Voces inlingua Senica omnes mono syllabae, nec plurci quam
- 364. Iaque nor improbabant, quod ego dicebam, quosdam
- cn-
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LBr. 330 · Grimaldi, fol. 46r. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 295). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/DE-611-HS-973086:0091?run=295