(LEIBNITZ, GOTTFRIED WILHELM).

De linee super linea incessu, ejusque tribus speciebus motu radent motu provolutionis et composito ex ambobus (+) Excerptum ex epistola G.G.L. pro hypothesi physica motus planetarii olim (Febr.1689) hic Actis inserta, ad Amicum scripsit.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1706. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Faint hand-written title to spine. Two small stamps to title-page and one stamp to front free end-paper. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. The entire volume of "Actorum Eruditorum Anno MDCCVI" offered. [Leibniz's paper:] Pp. 10-15 + 1 engraved plate; 446-51 pp. [Entire volume: (2), 590 pp.].

First publication of two Leibniz papers.
In the first paper, Leibniz's calculates the curve for a rolling without sliding body (Pura provolutio). The second paper is a correction to Leibniz's 1689-paper.

Many other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians are to be found in the present volume.

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