* 1.1That every visible Image is then most Dense and United, when it is first ab∣duced from the Object: or, that by how much the neerer the visible Species is to the Body, from which it is delibrated, by so much the more Dense and United are the rayes of which it doth consist; and so much the more Rare or Disgre∣gate, by how much the farther it is removed from it. This may be exempli∣fied in lines drawn from the Centre of a Circle to the Circumference; for by how much the farther they run from the Centre, by so much the greater space is intercepted betwixt them: and by how much the larger space is in∣tercepted betwixt them, by so much the greater must their Rarity be, the degrees of Rarity being determinable by the degrees of intercepted space.
Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, or, A fabrick of science natural, upon the hypothesis of atoms founded by Epicurus repaired [by] Petrus Gassendus ; augmented [by] Walter Charleton ...
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Thus also must the rayes of the Visible Image, in their progress mutually recede each from other, and according to the more or less of their Elon∣gation from the point of abduction, become more or less Rare and scattered, into the amplitude of the Medium. However, we deny not the necessity of their innumerable Decussations, and Intersections; in respect to the vari∣ous Faces, and Confrontings of the parts of the superfice, from which they are emitted. And hence we extracted our
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Art. 3. That the Den∣sity and Vnion of the Rayes, composing the visible Image, is greater or less; accord∣ing to their less, or greater Elongation from the Ob∣ject.