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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 180

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: 0.83.

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The machine reads it as

  1. Brinci
  2. lecs
  3. Bhiotornicai
  4. Formd into SNOW, Or FTail, OE Rain, OI
  5. carricd into ocher Regions, Whole Soil
  6. does Wanc it more. Pvery Body Knons,
  7. that il there ivere no Armosphere, buc a
  8. pertect Void. around ihe Farih, the
  9. Action oF che Sun, wond noc be able t0
  10. raile the Vapours abore a ter Fect, From
  11. ets Surtace; aud that its only the AImo-
  12. spheres. beins specifically heaviee, than
  13. thele l’apours, thac buoys em up in
  14. ehe Air, by its greater Tendeney torrard
  15. the Center. Now then, it therc vere
  16. no Atmosphere, the Papours cond rite t0
  17. no sufticiene heiehth, and (o con d never
  18. bc coord Intticienely, (0 as to be Formid
  19. intosnow, orrain; For at a Cmall dictance
  20. From ehe Farths Surtace, ehe resected
  21. Rays oFthe Sun, makce the Places PO Warim,
  22. that no V’apour cond be turnd into Snou,
  23. or Rain, there; For ies the Coldness ot
  24. the uxper Regions, (Beins desticure ot
  25. thele refected RayS) and che lenoch ot
  26. Ot their Delcent, chac Forms chele Clonds
  27. and l’apours into snoer, and Rain, When
  28. ever che suxportins Armosphere becomes
  29. liohter,
  30. AI
  31. El
  32. et
  33. d
  34. Fa
  35. I
  36. N

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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 180. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0338?run=74