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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 190, page id 797370323:0348
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190
Vhuotophical vrincipler
erro Spheres, in the Pame Direction, the
Linc ot this Direction will necessarily pals
chroush boch their Centers. And (0 il
there be ans number of Spheres wrhatever,
prels d by a Plane in the Came Direction,
che Line of this Direction ill necessarils
Pals throush all cheir Centers. But a Line
chroush the Center of a Sphere trom the
point ot Contaet, is perpendicular to the
Langent Plane; and fince this is che Dire.
ction oF che pressure ot che Plane uxon thie
Spheres, ic is alto che Direction of the
pressure ot the Spheres upon che Plane:
Since alloche Particles oF Fluids, are Sphe.
rical, or nearly approachins chereto, and
Tince ther are supposd exccedine (mall,
a5 allo lince curve Curtaces are compoun
ded ot an intinite Number ot licele plain
Curtaces, it is univerlally true, that all
Fluids of Wrhac nature (oerer, prels the
Tdes oF che concainins Vessels in a Dire.
ction perpendicular chereto. And on che
ocher hand, Tince by demonstration, il 15
erue, that Fluids do prels che sides oF the
contamins Vessels, in a Direction perpen-
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