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# Title: Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 105, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 105)
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viz. to examine wrhether bodies at a Furcher distanee
trom the Center oF che Farth did not lose lomerhat
OEtheir porver or cendenes tomards it. And prO.
Pounded ic as onc of the Experiments to be tried ae
thecop ot the Pike oF Teneriff, and actempted the
Tame at the cop oF the Tomer oF St. Pauls beforethe
burnins ot it in the late great Fire; as allo at the top
and botrom oF the AbBY OF St. Peters in Westminster
though these beinu by but (mail dictances remored
From thesurtace, Pas not able certainy to perceire
any manitest difference. I propounded the lame alloto
be tried at the bottom and several Ctations ot decp
Mines; and D. Pomer did makce Lome trials to that end,
but hisTnltruments not beins sood, nothine could b0
certainty concluded trom them.
Thele are the Phenomena oF Springs and springy
bodies, Wrhichasther hare not hitherto been by any
thacPknom reduced to Rules, Co have all the attempts
For the explications oF therealon oF their porrer, and
ot (pringinels in general, beenvery inlufticient.
In the rcar 2660. I princed a little Tract, wrhich I
called, An Attempt for the explication of the Phenome-
na, ec. OF the riling oF mater in the pores ot very
Imall Pipes, Fileres, euc. And being unvilling chento
Dublis chis Theorr, 28 suppolns it mighe be preju-
dicial eo my desion oF WVatches, Wrhich I was then
procurins a Patent FOr, P ontr hinted che principle
erhrich I suppoled to De the cause ot thele Phaenomena
OF sprinss in the 3r Pasc chereot inthe Englim ldi-
tion, and in the 38 pase ot theLatinc Pdition, tran-
Aated by M. Behem, and printed at Amsterdam, 1662.
But referred che Further explication chereot till Pome
Other opportunitr.
ThC Principles I then mentioned Icalled by the
names ot Congruity and Inconeruity oF bodies. And
promiled a Further explanation oE irhat I chereby
meant on Lome other occation. I MBall here only ex-
Plain Co much oF ic as concerns the explication oF this
Pxesent Phxnomenon.