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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 265

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: 0.89.

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The machine reads it as

  1. lumoue
  2. ediately
  3. liguid,
  4. much
  5. ext the
  6. x 15 CO-
  7. IC 15
  8. chinner
  9. phericat
  10. ParE, 15
  11. Alion ot
  12. equent.
  13. Nerves
  14. la the
  15. visible;
  16. 60
  17. ot s2aC
  18. visible; buc by this laceral Insertion oF
  19. chele Nerves, the point of the Object
  20. artrich is invisible in the onc Pye, becomes
  21. visible in the ocher: For it is impostible,
  22. that che Rays Moud Fall on the inside et
  23. Boch Fres ac che Pame time. Thc lighe
  24. erhich comes trom the several points ot
  25. Objects, is lo retracted (by the Cornea and
  26. Christalline Flumour principallY) astomeet
  27. again upon the Retina, and there to paine
  28. in the Came Order and Proportion, wich
  29. the Obiect, theImase thereot, (a5 is evi
  30. dent by takrins of chat part of the Dura
  31. Mater, Wrhich covers the backside ot thc
  32. Retina, From the Pye ot any dead Animal
  33. and then placino the Fve in a AcFIole, OF
  34. a darkned Room; For lookino chen uxon
  35. the back part of the Retina, Wre MaII Scc
  36. chroustrit, the Pictures oF external Objects
  37. painceduxon its inside) andthese Pictures
  38. propasated by Motion, alons the Oprick
  39. Nerves, are the Causc oF Vision. No
  40. wtrat can be more admirable chan chis
  41. sructure oF the Fye; evry part contribu
  42. cirs Comechins corardies Perfection. ThC
  43. Cornea

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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 265. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0423?run=74