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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 111, page id 797370323:0149
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ccacer than
Ben 25 BC.
O nochine,
in Will be
en che At.
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Aster
chis
onable cale
de Corpuscle
Da erdclis
sidene, that
ance iS nO-
cales wrten
n increale;
chuS
dE
Satural Delision.
chus ihen n = 2. and P A = 0, che FOrcC
Ot che acraction is grearer, chan vrhien n = +
and PA = 0, and (0 in ochers higher.
AS allo, its clear trom chese Calculations,
chac che Force oFche acraction oFche Plane
uxon chie Corpuscle, at che lame finice Distan.
ces decreales Falter, Or ac 2 OrCateE rBLC,
iotien ehe Pomers oF che Distances arehiglis
chan when chiey are lorver, or when n Is a
greacer Number, than wben is lels;
thus ac che Pame Finice Distances, the
Force oF che Atraction is much lels propor-
tionally, ertien n = 3, chan wrten n = 1,
Or 2. and (0 in ochers wrhere che Difference
becrreen n in one Case and in che other, is
Vec Greater.
Nom eoapply chis coche Cohesion oF Bon
dies: lescerrain chac the Arst Condition (vIZ.
Wrhien che attraction is reciprocally 25 chc
Distance becwreen che attractins Bodies,)
cannor obcain in che Cohesion ot Bodies; FOr
che Ditterence bermeen che Force, When che
Bodies are in Contact, and wrhen chey are AE
Fome Dictance trom one anocher, in chis cale,
is (o ImaIl, 25 does noc anliver che appear-
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