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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 249

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: 0.86.

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The machine reads it as

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  2. tullis ft.
  3. al Mem.
  4. y erhict
  5. 1aY; 25
  6. Otters
  7. Radius
  8. ty d +0-
  9. a5 the
  10. hese dif.
  11. Necessi-
  12. OF these
  13. be che
  14. Duont t0
  15. th. thac
  16. r ot Na-
  17. for chis,
  18. ney had
  19. Omposd
  20. d Adoddbe
  21. composd one Polid Cylinder; Tor Calileo
  22. has demonstrated, that ot emo Bones ot
  23. equal lenochs, and ot equal Number of
  24. Fibres; the Strength of tho onc is to the
  25. Strensth of the other, as their Diameters
  26. are; (0 that a hollor Bone of a double
  27. Diameter, toa close onc ol che lame Num-
  28. ber OF Fibres, 15 45 2 t0 T, or the Rrst is
  29. ervice as srons as the second. This is mort
  30. conspicuous in thole Animals chat are
  31. Formd eo Ay; it is mondertul, hon liphe
  32. and vet hon srons, the Ouils ot theie
  33. Feathers and cheir Bones drc, and chis
  34. rondertul rise End, cond no othermays
  35. De obtain d bue by this Contrirance. B0-
  36. relli hach Chema that chese Bones are (0
  37. manr Voctes, ot irhich the Center of the
  38. Articulation is the Fulcrum, the Tendons
  39. arc thc Ropes, by wrhich che Vires Moti
  40. va ot the Mnscles elerace, and move 2
  41. ny tireioht or overcome any Relistence.
  42. There is a mondertul, and exactlr nice
  43. Geometry used by Nature in the Pisure.
  44. Connexion, Order, and Mocions of chele
  45. Pillars of the Body, and oF cHeir Cover
  46. thc

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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 249. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0407?run=74