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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 265, page id 797370323:0423
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visible in the ocher: For it is impostible,
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Objects, is lo retracted (by the Cornea and
Christalline Flumour principallY) astomeet
again upon the Retina, and there to paine
in the Came Order and Proportion, wich
the Obiect, theImase thereot, (a5 is evi
dent by takrins of chat part of the Dura
Mater, Wrhich covers the backside ot thc
Retina, From the Pye ot any dead Animal
and then placino the Fve in a AcFIole, OF
a darkned Room; For lookino chen uxon
the back part of the Retina, Wre MaII Scc
chroustrit, the Pictures oF external Objects
painceduxon its inside) andthese Pictures
propasated by Motion, alons the Oprick
Nerves, are the Causc oF Vision. No
wtrat can be more admirable chan chis
sructure oF the Fye; evry part contribu
cirs Comechins corardies Perfection. ThC
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