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# Title: Lettres De Mr Descartes (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 43:1; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 43:1)
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DE BIE DESC ARTES.
Striaca(que particulas ram actabre cornavie. Ouam-
obrem res exterila latior corpore cAt.
animum que mihi rlcerius addie, re a te hacin re
dissentiam, quod ad contirmationem huiulce tux de-
finitionis, cam scxuum adhibes arsumentum, ee Fer-
meSophilticum. Ouodrrique corpuspolsicesle cor-
pus linemollitie, vel duritie, vel pondere, vel leuita
cc, eec. illisenim, aliisque omnibus qualitatibus qua
in materia corporea senciuntur ex ea lublaris, iplam
inccoram remanere. Ouod perinde est ac li dixeris, li-
bram Cerx, cum pollicesselibra cerx, quamvis (po-
lietur figurâ Spharica, vel cubica, vel prramidali, dec.
Sub nulla figura polle remanere inceoram cerx li-
bram. Ouod tamen impossibile cAt. Ouamris enim
haec velilla lgura non eam arcte cohXiCaE CUM CCTa,
quin illam exuere polsic, ve camen cera semper (IcA-
suraca, necelsicaslumma cs, de arctissim a. lea quam-
vis mareria non lu neceslario mollis, nec dura, nec
calida, nec Frigida, ve camen sic lensibilis est Cum-
me necessarium; vel si malles cansibilis, prout opti-
me definit Lucrerius.
Tansere enim, ex rangi, nisi corpus nulla potest res.
Oux cerre notio minus debet a tuamence abhorreie,
cum PhiloCophiacua omnem senlum cum antiquisil.
lisapud Theophraltum neet aidnoccos ractum planissi-
me constiruar. Ouod vero verius esse ipse Facillime
admiccam. Sed siminusplacet corpus detinire abha-
bicudinc ad senlusnostros: Pangibilicashaec larior (IE
ac diffusior, de ligniticet mucuum illum contactum,
rangendique porentiam, incer corpord quaeliber live