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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 87, page id 797370323:0125
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celveem
Bodies.
perfictes,
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Patural Belisio
chereby hare cheir retractire Porer made
more or lels; this MIr. Nemton has tound
by Oblerracion on alimost all eran (pareNE
Bodies, cogecher wich a Calcularion Counded
uxon che suppotirion, chat Lighe is svitcer
in Bodies chan in vacuo, in che Proportion
OF che Signs wrtrich meature che Refraction ot
Bodies, wrhich is cerrainly erue, lince ies
trem che Accion ol Bodics on LighE, ChdE
chis refractive Porver does arile; and ies
very probable, chac chis refractive POICK
in Bodies does mostly dexend uxon che
lulphurous Pares wich which chey abound,
Since all Bodies partake more or lels ol Sul-
Phurs, 25 by Chymical analyses ive find.
And as Lighe congregaced by a Burnins.
Clats, acts most upon sulphurous Bodies,
tocum ehem ineo Pire and Flame; (0 (InCC
alI Action is mucual, Sulphurs aet most
uxon Liohe: and chac che Action becWCen
Lighe and Bodiesis mucual, is cvidenctrom
this Consideration, thac che denest Bodies
Wrhich refract and restect Lishe mos Arong.
ly oro horrest in chesummer HCat, by
che Acdiom oE che resracted aud restected
2.18IC.