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Time it is by our senses in fidge of similarity
or difference or by nothing. But as circumstances
in which the bodies might be here found
to influence our senses so much, such circumstances
as distance quantity & direction of light, position
Left of
Equality [distance] with respect to you distan and the Sun from
whence light issues. if was found necessary
to settle certain circumstances in which
such bodies must be so as that to
be compared. certain circumstances
to be universally established as those in
which bodies should be compared.
of these circumstances the the most simple
have such as admitted of less error.
juxtaposition or rather imaginary
contact were determined as necessary:
superposition, at which some Geometics
are shocked will not bear to hear of
and at which others will with great difficulty
admit and may some apologies barely admit
of. By the assistance of superposition
[contact] distance between the bodies is
out of the question. As to distance of your
eye from the objects. that is a circumstance
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