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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 135

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  1. du. II. Donot preat Bodies conterre their heat the
  2. longest, their parts heatins one another, and may not
  3. sreat dense and fx d Bodies, irtien heated berond à
  4. certain degree, emit Light Pocopiousr, as by the emis-
  5. hon and reaction ofits Light, and the resexions and re-
  6. Fractions oF its rars rithin its pores to gro sill hot.
  7. ter. till it comes to a certain period ot heat, fuch a5 15
  8. THAE OEFhe SUIN : And arC nOt the SuM and AX d SFAES
  9. sreat Farths rehementiy hot, whole heat is conserred
  10. Oy the greatness of the Bodies, and the mutual action
  11. and reaction betreen them, aud the Lioht wrhich they
  12. emit, and irhole partsare kept trom tumins array, not
  13. only by their fixier, but allo by the rast reistit and
  14. densier of the Atmospheres incumbent upon them, and
  15. very sronsly compressins them, and condentins the va-
  16. pours and exhralations irhich arise From them:
  17. Du. 22. Donot therars oF Lighe in falling uxon the
  18. bottom oF the Fre excite ribrations in the lunica re
  19. tina: Which ribrations, Deins propasated alone the
  20. Colid fibres of the optick Nerres into the Brain, CaulC
  21. the sense of secins. For becaule dente Bodies conserre
  22. their heat a lons time, and the densest Bodies conterre
  23. their heat the longest, the ribrations oF their paPtS arC
  24. oF a lastins nature, and theretore may be propasatect
  25. alons solid tibres ot unitorm dense matter to a great di-
  26. Stance, For convering into the Brain the imprestions
  27. inacte uxon aIl the Orsans of sense. For that motion
  28. erhich con continue lons in one and che lame part of a
  29. Bodi, can De propasated a lons ray ErOm One ParFtO
  30. another, supposine the Body homogeneal, (0 that the
  31. motion may not be retlected, retracted, interrupted oE
  32. disordered by any unerennels oFthe Body
  33. Ibo

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 135. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0311?run=74