Convex speculums have the same effect wth concave glasses.
Qu. Whether concave speculums have the same effect wth convex glasses?
The reason why convex speculums diminish & concave magnify not yet fully assign'd by any writer I know.
Qu. Why not objects seen confus'd when that they seem inverted through a convex lens?
Qu. How to make a glass or speculum which shall magnify or diminish by altering the distance without altering the angle?
No identity (other than perfect likeness) in any individuals besides persons[226].
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As well make tastes, smells, fear, shame, wit, virtue, vice, & all thoughts move wth local motion as immaterial spirit.
On account of my doctrine, the identity of finite substances must consist in something else than continued existence, or relation to determined time & place of beginning to exist—the existence of our thoughts (which being combined make all substances) being frequently interrupted, & they having divers beginnings & endings.