For on the one ſide it appears, that not
withſtanding the exſuction of the Air, our
Receiver may not be deſtitute of all Bo
dies, ſince any thing placed in it, may be
ſeen there; which would not be, if it
were not pervious to thoſe Beams of
Light which rebounding from the ſeen
Object to our eyes, affect us with the ſenſe
of it: And that either theſe Beams are
Corporeal Emanations from ſome lucid
body, or elſe at leaſt the light they convey
doth reſult from the brisk Motion of ſome
ſubtle Matter, I could, if I miſtake not,
ſufficiently manifeſt out of the Dialogues
above-mention'd, if I thought your Lord
ſhip could ſeriouſly imagine that Light
could be convey'd without, at leaſt, having
(if I may ſo ſpeak) a Body for its Ve
hicle.
withſtanding the exſuction of the Air, our
Receiver may not be deſtitute of all Bo
dies, ſince any thing placed in it, may be
ſeen there; which would not be, if it
were not pervious to thoſe Beams of
Light which rebounding from the ſeen
Object to our eyes, affect us with the ſenſe
of it: And that either theſe Beams are
Corporeal Emanations from ſome lucid
body, or elſe at leaſt the light they convey
doth reſult from the brisk Motion of ſome
ſubtle Matter, I could, if I miſtake not,
ſufficiently manifeſt out of the Dialogues
above-mention'd, if I thought your Lord
ſhip could ſeriouſly imagine that Light
could be convey'd without, at leaſt, having
(if I may ſo ſpeak) a Body for its Ve
hicle.
By the ſixteenth Experiment, it alſo
appears that the cloſeneſs of our Receiver
hinders it not from admitting the Efflu
via of the Load-ſtone; which makes it
very probable that it alſo freely admits
the Magnetical ſteams of the Earth; con
cerning which, we have in another Trea
tiſe endeavour'd to manifeſt that numbers
of them do always permeate our Air.
appears that the cloſeneſs of our Receiver
hinders it not from admitting the Efflu
via of the Load-ſtone; which makes it
very probable that it alſo freely admits
the Magnetical ſteams of the Earth; con
cerning which, we have in another Trea
tiſe endeavour'd to manifeſt that numbers
of them do always permeate our Air.
But on the other ſide it may be ſaid,
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