E3Post2

Postulate — Part III

Latin

Corpus humanum multas pati potest mutationes et nihilominus retinere objectorum impressiones seu vestigia (de quibus vide postulatum 5 partis II) et consequenter easdem rerum imagines; quarum definitionem vide in scholio propositionis 17 partis II.

English (Elwes 1883)

The human body can undergo many changes, and, nevertheless, retain the impressions or traces of objects (cf. II. Post. v.), and, consequently, the same images of things (see note II. xvii.).

Modern English

The human body can undergo many changes and still retain the impressions or traces of objects (E2Post5) — and consequently the same images of things (E2P17S).

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