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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S11
Section 305 of 1,114
Canonical reference B2.C17.S11
English
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The same happens also in space, wherein, conceiving ourselves to be, as it were, in the centre, we do on all sides pursue those indeterminable lines of number; and reckoning any way from ourselves, a yard, mile, diameter of the earth or orbis magnus, - by the infinity of number, we add others to them, as often as we will. And having no more reason to set bounds to those repeated ideas than we have to set bounds to number, we have that indeterminable idea of immensity.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
La même choſe arrive à l’égard de l’Eſpace, où nous nous conſiderons comme placez dans un Centre d’où nous pouvons ajoûter de tous côtez des lignes indéfinies de nombre, comptant vers tous les endroits qui nous environnent, une aune, une lieuë, un Diametre de la Terre, ou de l’Orbis Magnus que nous multiplions par cette infinité de nombres auſſi ſouvent que nous voulons, & comme nous n’avons pas plus de raiſon de donner des bornes à ces idées repetées, qu’au Nombre, nous acquerons par-là l’idée indéterminée de l’Immenſité.
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