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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 137

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  5. OF thc
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  21. Portion of Mundan space, equalFO our Sy-
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  24. Systems thatcan standroundours; buethere
  25. are bue aboue erretre or thirteen Spheres
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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 137. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0295?run=74