An object wthout a glass may be seen under as great an angle as wth a glass. A glass therefore does not magnify the appearance by the angle.
S.
Absurd that men should know the soul by idea—ideas being inert, thoughtless. Hence Malbranch confuted[232].
I saw gladness in his looks. I saw shame in his face. So I see figure or distance.
Qu. Why things seen confusedly thro' a convex glass are not magnify'd?
Tho' we should judge the horizontal moon to be more distant, why should we therefore judge her to be greater? What connexion betwixt the same angle, further distant, and greaterness?
N.
My doctrine affects the essences of the Corpuscularians.
Perfect circles, &c. exist not without (for none can so exist, whether perfect or no), but in the mind.
Lines thought divisible ad infinitum, because they are suppos'd to exist without. Also because they are thought the same when view'd by the naked eye, & wn view'd thro' magnifying glasses.