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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 6

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  1. viz. to examine wrhether bodies at a Furcher distanee
  2. trom the Center oF che Farth did not lose lomerhat
  3. OEtheir porver or cendenes tomards it. And prO.
  4. Pounded ic as onc of the Experiments to be tried ae
  5. thecop ot the Pike oF Teneriff, and actempted the
  6. Tame at the cop oF the Tomer oF St. Pauls beforethe
  7. burnins ot it in the late great Fire; as allo at the top
  8. and botrom oF the AbBY OF St. Peters in Westminster
  9. though these beinu by but (mail dictances remored
  10. From thesurtace, Pas not able certainy to perceire
  11. any manitest difference. I propounded the lame alloto
  12. be tried at the bottom and several Ctations ot decp
  13. Mines; and D. Pomer did makce Lome trials to that end,
  14. but hisTnltruments not beins sood, nothine could b0
  15. certainty concluded trom them.
  16. Thele are the Phenomena oF Springs and springy
  17. bodies, Wrhichasther hare not hitherto been by any
  18. thacPknom reduced to Rules, Co have all the attempts
  19. For the explications oF therealon oF their porrer, and
  20. ot (pringinels in general, beenvery inlufticient.
  21. In the rcar 2660. I princed a little Tract, wrhich I
  22. called, An Attempt for the explication of the Phenome-
  23. na, ec. OF the riling oF mater in the pores ot very
  24. Imall Pipes, Fileres, euc. And being unvilling chento
  25. Dublis chis Theorr, 28 suppolns it mighe be preju-
  26. dicial eo my desion oF WVatches, Wrhich I was then
  27. procurins a Patent FOr, P ontr hinted che principle
  28. erhrich I suppoled to De the cause ot thele Phaenomena
  29. OF sprinss in the 3r Pasc chereot inthe Englim ldi-
  30. tion, and in the 38 pase ot theLatinc Pdition, tran-
  31. Aated by M. Behem, and printed at Amsterdam, 1662.
  32. But referred che Further explication chereot till Pome
  33. Other opportunitr.
  34. ThC Principles I then mentioned Icalled by the
  35. names ot Congruity and Inconeruity oF bodies. And
  36. promiled a Further explanation oE irhat I chereby
  37. meant on Lome other occation. I MBall here only ex-
  38. Plain Co much oF ic as concerns the explication oF this
  39. Pxesent Phxnomenon.

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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 6. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0012?run=74