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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 36

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  1. FI F OriginalOF. Springsis chat which hach ex
  2. u
  3. ercised thc Pens OE many lcarned WVriters
  4. and very various have been the conjectures concern
  5. ningit. But amonost all Phare mec rith lconceire
  6. nonemore probable than that which scemsto Fetchits
  7. original From thellistorr oF the Creation mentioned
  8. in Holy Wric; chat is, chac chere is a MagazinC OF
  9. aters aboreas reIl a5 a Receptacle oF Waters upon
  10. Or benenth the surtace of the Farth: And chat the
  11. Rir isthat Firmament wrhich separates becreen the
  12. uxper and lover maters, and becreen thele tro is
  13. the circulation oF raters (or bloud ofthe Micro
  14. colm, it. Imay (0callic) pertormed. Themater Be-
  15. ins Cometimes by a particular constitution OF the AIT
  16. allisted by heac, rarihed and separated inco minuter
  17. Darts, and Po reduced into the form oE Air, and
  18. therebr being dirided into Particles really Emaller
  19. chanthole oF cheair in compaltins, and asitated wicti
  20. agreater degrec of motion, thes tale up more lpace,
  21. and (o become ligtiter than the Ambient, and are
  22. thereby elerated and protruded upmards cill chey
  23. come to their place of poise or lquilibrium in the
  24. RIr: AC Ocher times by a differine consticution ot
  25. che Rir and deticiener ot heac ther lole cheir agitati
  26. on and mans of them arain coalelce, and Poharine
  27. Delsmotion ther condense and revere into mater, and
  28. Co, beins heavier than the incompaltins Air, descend
  29. domnasainto che Farth in Mists, Rain, SnOI, Hail,
  30. Ox thelike.
  31. Thacchereis Tach a Circulation Tchink chere is none
  32. doubes, but silt ic remains a difsiculer (rith those per-
  33. Consthat granc this) that all Rivers and Springs Mould
  34. hare cheir original trom the Watex that Falls Or COn
  35. dences outot che RIr.
  36. To pertuade such persons it may noc postibly bc un-
  37. Successtul Fomention:

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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 36. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0046?run=74