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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 39

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  1. Fop thereos he obserred co be rery Pabby and moyst
  2. and thecarch co Dip underneach hisfeet, beins a very
  3. moyst (OFtC lay or Lome like mortar. And Farther,
  4. thac ac a C are, noc tar trom the top, therc WaS a
  5. sreat quantier oF very trem mater, irhich ras con-
  6. cinvally supplicd, though great quantities of lce mere
  7. continuall fetch d trom thence, and carried donn
  8. into the IMand tor cooling their Wines. Consonant
  9. torrhich Obserration iras that wrhich mas related 10
  10. me by che inquisitire Hr. Pdmund Fally made in
  11. Sc. Flelena erhrilst he Cayed there to oblerre the places
  12. OF the StarS OF the Southern LLemIIPherC, in OrdercO
  13. perfect che Calestial Olobe. Iaring then placed
  14. himselE uxon onc oF cho hixhest Prominences ol that
  15. (malI IBand irhich he Found eo be no lels than 3000
  16. Foot Perpendiculariy abore the Surtace oF the Sea
  17. next adjornins, suppolins thac mighe be the most
  18. convenient place For his deligned obserration; HC
  19. quicklr found his expectation much deceired as to
  20. that purpose For rrhich he chole it; For being Otten
  21. Cohigh into the Rir the motion oF it Was (o violent as
  22. much to disturb his Instrumenes; Buc wrhich Was mOre,
  23. he Found such abundance oE milts and morsture chac
  24. it unolued the Tubes, and corcred his Glastes pre-
  25. senely rich aDer; and rrhick Wras vet more, che
  26. Fogos and milts almost continually hindred the Cphe
  27. OE EHC STAES. But upon remorins to a lorver stacion
  28. in the IBand he as Erced From the Former InCOn
  29. VenIenCCS.
  30. Lcould relate manz Fistories oF chis nature, iwhere-
  31. by ic leems very probable, chac noc only HiIIS, but
  32. Woods alio, do very much contribute to thecon-
  33. dentins oF themoxsture of the air, and convertins
  34. ic into mater, and thereby eo supply the Sprinssand
  35. Rirulers wichfrestr rater: And Jam contidene, wrho-
  36. Foever Balt consider his omn observation et chiona.
  37. ture, and compare them rith this Theory, will sind
  38. mans argumenesto contirm it. Horerei, Nullius in
  39. verba–

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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 39. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0049?run=74