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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 263

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. Object
  3. Postible
  4. DC Rye,
  5. Ac end.
  6. 1; IC 15
  7. umours
  8. second
  9. mooth,
  10. betore;
  11. d che
  12. a piece
  13. ter COn
  14. ot chc
  15. hich are
  16. 5, 25 t0
  17. IE IS OF
  18. touch,
  19. thCL a-
  20. lean IC.
  21. ic liCS
  22. Clands
  23. rich in
  24. (itrict
  25. DE
  26. S2aE
  27. is curile oF a wrhicilh Colour) For hin-
  28. drins the reflecced Lighe trom disturbins
  29. che Pictures ot Objects; this C Oat has a
  30. Irole betore, trhich is called che Pnpilla,
  31. For admittins che Lishe. Thektch is the
  32. Vvea, irtich is nochins buc che Circum-
  33. Terenee of che Pupilla; it is composd ot
  34. circular and Ccraishe Fibres, to Contrace Ot
  35. dilate, accordins to che Prensch or wealc.
  36. nels oF the Lioht, For when che Light is
  37. 100 Arons, the Circular Pibres contract
  38. the Pupilla, chac cheir Porce hurt not the
  39. Lye; and rrhen ic is weale, che Craishe
  40. Fibres dilate it, to let in more RayS, For
  41. che more distindt Vilion. On che inside
  42. ot che vea trom is Circumference Whieh
  43. Joins the Choroides, riles che Ligamentum
  44. Ciliare, by irhuch the Forepare ofthe Fye is
  45. Prels doutrard, and the Retina backrac.
  46. or che Axe oF che Lye lenothned, at che
  47. approach, oE toonear Obiects. The Cixth
  48. Coat is the Retina, wrhich covers like a
  49. Net che bocom ot che, Fye, it is only a
  50. Anc expansion, ot the libres ot theop.
  51. tiek Nerxe; upon chis Coat, che Pictures

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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 263. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0421?run=74