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Help with transcribing C17 Dutch text

Hello all,

I have been working on some Latin mathematical MSS from the Netherlands from the seventeenth century. There is one page from a notebook in Dutch by Petrus van Schooten (UG Hs 442, p. 39r) that I am having some difficulty transcribing (mainly due to my inadequate knowledge of Dutch). I am very keen to know what is being said is the underlined text at the top of the page here, especially the first three or four lines or so, which mention a geometrical demonstration in relation to the mathematicians Frans van Schooten (Petrus' brother) and Jacob Golius.

If anyone could help me with transcribing any parts of this underlined text that they can read, I would be very, very much obliged!

Here is the link to the full page in the MS, if it helps: https://dbc.rug.nl/digital/collection/manuscripts/id/2417/rec/1

Hartelijk dank,

Alex

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AntonS zei op ma, 12/09/2024 - 13:01

Hi Alex,

I've tried to transcribe the text as far as I can read it. Hopefully with the help of others on this forum the entire text can be read and understood / interpreted.

beneffens mijn Broeder Franciscus a Schooten, welcke doch eevenwel in het maecken (mar) van Geometrie demonstratien
haer meerder hebben geoeffent, om dat sij bevonden dat veele (als onder anderen de heer Jacobus Golius) behaegde datmen beneeffens
de geometrie-constructien oock geometrie-demonstratien wiste te geeven waer door de Analyse tenemael soude cunnen werden
ge.....ert maer achten desen geometrie-demonstratien oock niet van seggen) - dan sij ijder voertt ... het contrarij te bewijsen
wesen der ... dat (xx) mijn broder het maecken van geometrie-demonstratien et calcul algebraico in het laetste tractaet Geometria ......
aengeweesen als moogelick is (daer toe ... geraeden sijnde) om dat ijder deselve ........  soude hebben ........  geometri
demonstratien
niet te achten
die voor onnut
ende de saeck maer
verswaerende te
houden.

Alex G zei op di, 12/10/2024 - 14:25

Dear Anton,

This is tremendous work—I cannot thank you enough here! What you have managed to transcribe already gives me a good sense of this passage, even if the other words remain still too difficult to transcribe...

I will be sure to acknowledge you if I cite this passage anywhere in my dissertation.

Sincerely, Alex

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