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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 116

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.78.

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The machine reads it as

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  4. oFthe Rarch, and a Diameter tobc of 7846
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  9. Velocits ic has, wrhen parted trom the
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  11. Seren hundred thouland Tears to 80 thro.
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  13. Phine by cheir own Lighe, and chat they
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  15. et is plain, ther must be Bodies like oue
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  17. Bebroushenearus, ormenearthem, For it
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  20. oud bc all in che Surtace of the lame
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  23. Sides, cheir disterent, Magnicudes, Men
  24. thac they are, at, as immense Distances
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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 116. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0274?run=74