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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
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Bhuotopical principles
about cach ot thele lec us imagine se-
veral Bodies lilce our Planets, rorling in
Teveral Orbits at Sereral Dictances; and
about chole lesser ones Analocons to the
Satellits OF our Planets. Each ot chele
fxc Scars wich cheir Circumambient Pla-
netlike Orbs, constiturine thac irtrich is
calda System ot che Celestial Bodies. And
hor mans Cuch there must be in che rast
Extent ot Space, a natced ere in a cloud
JeloNighe, may sire us fome taint Climps,
Duc much more a 800d laree Telescope di-
rected corrard that Region of the Skic
ertich is cald the milky may. Oue Num
bers Fall very Bhorthere, and oue drithme
tick can (carce sive us an idea of the
vast Ouanciey oF Systems thac adtorn chis
supenduons Piece ot Architecture; and vet
no doube their Number is finic, and chey
arc all included in a bounded Pxtention;
For Matter Pcems noc capable in itS Na.
cure ofbeins intinitely propasared. More
over, lec us conceire che olorions Body
oF the sun, tixt in the Center ot Gravity
(OF RCaF H) oF ehis our System, and in the
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