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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 195, page id 797370323:0353
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the obti-
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restected Rays are curri d back betore they
arxire ae che reflectine Plane: For if ehe
reflectinqe Plane, have TucH a Forcc oF ai-
traction that Before the Ray arrires ac it.
it hras already made the sine of the Angle
ot Incidence, equal to the Radius, the
Ray niust reflect, and nOE FaII WPON FE
reflecting Planc at aII; iF a lesser deoree
oF attraction, then must ic enter ehe Body
ot the Plane, and procced in the Linc,
thac ies direee impulse, cogether tritk tHC
degree ot attraction in the refractine B0d).
necelsarily seneTaLCS. And aS FHCIC aEC
different degrees ot Attraction in Bodies
Whick produce cheir difterent desrees ot
Flasticito and Cohesion TO EHCTE MBKE BC
difterent degrees ot attraction in Mediums,
SupPOSd, LO aCCONME FOr their eiIFereHE
Povers, in bringins che refracted RayS
Fearer EO OP Farther From, ttre perpendicu-
lar: For iCS vell Khoin, all Mediums
hrare nOc chE Pame refractive Virtue. Non
artac a beauritul, unitorm, aud simple
Theory oF Light, i6 herC
Mtc CC
this i5 (O VerV
crugat simplicitys, aud yet che ma-
nisolet