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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 55, page id 797370323:0213
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a very ChOrE LinC,) Vet he has nOC men-
tioned etiac aritins from the Auid oF Lieht
erhich reaches berond che Orbit OF Saturn.
and cho re have Cherrn in the precedins
Chapcer, thac ehis Auid is extreamly thin
and its parts casils moreable, vet Cill cher
malce a Auid; and this Auid must sire
Tome relistence to Bodies pallins throueh
ic, irhich tho very ImalI, must in an in-
Anir of Rges hare been (ufticient eo have
quite destroyed ehis projectil Motion. EF
che Lighe ot che Sun bc a Body (35 WVC
have provd ic to bc) ic must relust ocher
Bodies chat move in ic, and it it bc bue
che Action ot lucid Bodies communicated
by the impulse ot one Body upon anochei.
in a Ptait Line, richout che actual Motion
oF any onc ot em, vet Aillit is necestary
thac chere Be a Series of Bocies interposd
becrrixe che lucid Body and che illemita-
ted Obiect, itrich ill as much relist thc
Pallase oF Bodies, a5 if che parts oF Liohe
mord chemlelres; (o that in boch Cales
etiere must be lome relistence made toB0.
dies pastins chroush chis Ocean oF Liehe;
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