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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 266, page id 797370323:0424
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Chilotorhicat princivlea
Corneais more convex chan any ocher pare
ot che Fye, by rhuch all che Rays arc sa-
thered, to pals chroush the Pupilla, and
ter ot em lost on che Dvea. The A.
queons Flumour beins chin, casuls changes
its Figure, cicher rhen the Ligamentum
Ciliare contracts, or both the oblique
Mnscles procrude, the Bulb oF che Fye, 10
render it oblons, when Objects arc 100
near; the Fibres oF cheVvea contract or
dilate the Pupilla, accordins to the DC
orees ot the Scrength ot the light. ThC
classy Eumour Kecps the Retina at a duC
dilcance trom che Chrystallin, che Imases
arc painted upon a Skin, producd by the
expantion ot the Optick Nerves, For the
more calie converance ot the Imprestion
+o the Brain. The Choroides is tinctur d
black, chac che Rays thac pals chroughit
may noc be restected back again uxon che
Retina, and. (o contound the Object. ThC
Oprick Nerves are inserte d on the inside ol
the Axes oFche Fye, chat che Whole Ob.
sect may be distinety viemd; theflairo
Ot the Fyebrons, brealehondireca
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