If the world lasts another thousand years and as many books are written as today, then I think entire library-cities will come into being; but time's attrition and various causes will destroy many of them.
Godfrey William Leibnitz, Otium Hanoveranum, ed. Joachim Friedrich Feller,
Leipzig: Johann Christian Martin, 1718.
Si mundus adhuc mille annos durabit, et tot libri, ut hodie, conscribentur, vereor, ne e Bibliothecis integræ civitates fiant; Sed iniuria temporum et casus varii multas perdent.
Otium Hanoveranum, Sive, Miscellanea, Ex ore et schedis Illustris Viri, piæ memoriæ, Godofr. Guilielmi Leibnitii, S. Cæs. Maj. Consiliarii, et S. Reg. Maj. Britanniarum â Consiliis Justitiæ intimis, nec non à scribenda Historia, Quondam notata et descripta, Cum ipsi in colligendis et excerpendis rebus ad Historiam Brunsvicensem pertinentibus operam navaret, Joachimus Fridericus Fellerus, Secretarius Ducalis Saxo-Vinariensis. Additæ sunt coronidis loco Epistolæ Gallicæ amoebeæ Leibnitii et Pelissonii de Tolerantia Religionum et de controversiis quibusdam Theologicis, jampridem editæ, nunc recusa. Quibus præmissum est supplementu vitæ Leibnitianæ.
Cum Privilegio Reg. Polon. et Elect. Saxon. Lipsiæ M DCC XIIX.
Impensis Joann. Christiani Martini.
2 comments:
Hello Mr Blyth,
Good to still see you blogging. Did I miss the credit for the image? Who did the nice library?
All the best and thank you for your answer.
JWG
It’s an image generated by artificial intelligence (Midjourney) using the prompts “Piranesi” and “library”.
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