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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 77, page id 797370323:0115
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10000 Diameters, the Ligheruns a chouland
Diameters in a Minure, or Eixccen and halF
Diameters ot che Farch in a Second, Or
beacins ot an Artery, chac is more cham
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Carch contains 2865 French Learues, and
every LearUe CONFaInS 2282 Toises, dCCOT-
dins co che Numbers ol Br. Picard. BUE
Sound goes buc about 180 Toises in a Sc-
cond, Wrheretore Lighe is abour six hundred
chouland eimes more srite chan Sound.
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15 7846 Mtiles, cach ot irhich concains
5000Fcer; and since Lighe goes in 2 Sc.
condor in a pulse ot an Arcery, sixceen and
a halE; Diameters Ot the Parth, 1E i5 Plain,
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dred and chirey chouland Miles, irhich is
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