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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 266

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: 0.78.

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The machine reads it as

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  4. ot che Fye, by rhuch all che Rays arc sa-
  5. thered, to pals chroush the Pupilla, and
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  7. queons Flumour beins chin, casuls changes
  8. its Figure, cicher rhen the Ligamentum
  9. Ciliare contracts, or both the oblique
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  11. render it oblons, when Objects arc 100
  12. near; the Fibres oF cheVvea contract or
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  16. dilcance trom che Chrystallin, che Imases
  17. arc painted upon a Skin, producd by the
  18. expantion ot the Optick Nerves, For the
  19. more calie converance ot the Imprestion
  20. +o the Brain. The Choroides is tinctur d
  21. black, chac che Rays thac pals chroughit
  22. may noc be restected back again uxon che
  23. Retina, and. (o contound the Object. ThC
  24. Oprick Nerves are inserte d on the inside ol
  25. the Axes oFche Fye, chat che Whole Ob.
  26. sect may be distinety viemd; theflairo
  27. Ot the Fyebrons, brealehondireca
  28. that
  29. a
  30. N
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  32. C
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  36. ever
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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 266. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0424?run=74