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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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ercised thc Pens OE many lcarned WVriters
and very various have been the conjectures concern
ningit. But amonost all Phare mec rith lconceire
nonemore probable than that which scemsto Fetchits
original From thellistorr oF the Creation mentioned
in Holy Wric; chat is, chac chere is a MagazinC OF
aters aboreas reIl a5 a Receptacle oF Waters upon
Or benenth the surtace of the Farth: And chat the
Rir isthat Firmament wrhich separates becreen the
uxper and lover maters, and becreen thele tro is
the circulation oF raters (or bloud ofthe Micro
colm, it. Imay (0callic) pertormed. Themater Be-
ins Cometimes by a particular constitution OF the AIT
allisted by heac, rarihed and separated inco minuter
Darts, and Po reduced into the form oE Air, and
therebr being dirided into Particles really Emaller
chanthole oF cheair in compaltins, and asitated wicti
agreater degrec of motion, thes tale up more lpace,
and (o become ligtiter than the Ambient, and are
thereby elerated and protruded upmards cill chey
come to their place of poise or lquilibrium in the
RIr: AC Ocher times by a differine consticution ot
che Rir and deticiener ot heac ther lole cheir agitati
on and mans of them arain coalelce, and Poharine
Delsmotion ther condense and revere into mater, and
Co, beins heavier than the incompaltins Air, descend
domnasainto che Farth in Mists, Rain, SnOI, Hail,
Ox thelike.
Thacchereis Tach a Circulation Tchink chere is none
doubes, but silt ic remains a difsiculer (rith those per-
Consthat granc this) that all Rivers and Springs Mould
hare cheir original trom the Watex that Falls Or COn
dences outot che RIr.
To pertuade such persons it may noc postibly bc un-
Successtul Fomention: