Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 51
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- Further, dE Is probable chac P arthguakes may have
- been much more Frequent in Former Ages than they
- havebeenin chele lacter, the consideration oF ertrich
- Wwiis possibly make chis APertion nor (0 P’aradoxical a8
- at Erst hearing it may scem tobe; though even chele
- latter Ases harendt been Whollr barren oE Instances
- oF thebeing and effects ot them, to convince vou oE
- Wrhich Pharehereunto subjorned a Relation and ac-
- conntoF onc vers nemly trhrich hapned incheIACOF
- Palmaarione the Canaries.
- NexE, the clearness ot the Air is very remarkea.
- ble, Wrhich made an IMand irhich lay cight Lcagues
- OfF to look as il it vere close br. To chis purpole
- Thare oftentaken notice oF the great difference there
- isbecreen the Air very nearthe lorver surtace ot the
- Parth, and that ihich is ac a 800d distance From ic;
- That wrhich is very near che carth beins generally (0
- thick and opacousthatbodies cannocat any consider-
- ble distance beseen distinetly chrouon ic: But the Far=
- ther chc ere and object are elerated abore this chick
- Air, the more clear do the objects appear. And I
- hare divers times taken norice chat itie lame object
- seen trom chetop and bortom of a high Tower hach
- appeared erice as Far Of When (een at che BOccom aS
- irtien scen at the top: Forthe Fyedoch very muen
- judee ot the distance oF Objects accordinq as the
- Denttr oE the Air berreenthe Eye and Object docti
- reprelent them. Hence Phare Peen men look ot Gi
- ranciek bignels in a Fog, caused by reason that the
- Fogmade chelire judge che object much Farther OH
- thanreallr it as, irhren ac the lame time che visible
- Anole alcered not. This greatthicknels oF the lorver
- Air is sufticientr manifest in the Coelestial bodies, Ferr
- OF the fixt Stars or smaller Planets being visible
- till cherarea considerable ar raised abore che FIO-
- r2ZOn.
- Thechird remark abont the moistnels OF the FOGS,
- andche production oE rater at chac heighe Pharebe.
- TOrc
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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 51. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0061?run=74