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ihdefcales /is conftituted of /Z^r^^/, which in a very neat 
order, lye by one another, fo that each of thefe fcales^ is 
the thickneisofonbof the threds, the appearance here- 
of to view, 1 have reprefented^as well as I could, by Lines 
drawn in a Circle, Fig* i. ABC. is the Crifiallin Body y of 
the bignefs it appeareth to the naked Eye, B, is the part 
lying next the C'(?r;^e^ Tunica -y but thefe I have magni- 
fied, that I might the better reprefent the threds confti- 
tuting every /ra/^. Fig. 2. KEFGHIL is reprefented, as 
if the aforementioned /7^. A^a;w. I. lay with the round B 
ii^xtthe^y^: andalthol have here drawn many Lines, 
which reprefent as many ^/'r^^^j', yet is their number no- 
thing to thofe, in the Circumference of the Chrijiallin hu* 
7i?2(?r of an which are above 12000. For lothreds ly- 
ing clofe together fide by fide, making not out on€ Bi^ 
ameter of zn haires bredth, now it the whole ^xis (as 
before is faidj is 400 haiVs bredth long, then is it long 
4000 of thofe threds. And this computed by the com- 
mon Rules, amounteth to i2f7if. the number of the 
/^Zr^^/lyingfide by fide, and which make out the whole 
circumference of the Criflallin Body. 
Hence may be perceived how thin thefe threds sltc, 
and how wonderfully they run not through the -^at/j-, as 
I heretofore conceived, but taking 3 feveral wayes out 
of the point L, (the imagined ^xisj Thefe threds do 
not approach the on the other fide of the Criftallin 
bodyyZSxYiQj do on this, but turne back, with a fmall bent 
making there the fliorteft threds. For example, the 
fhorteit threds here, t^/?,. MK. HN.and OF. reach up to 
tkiQAxis on the other fide, and fill up the place; (as is 
here reprefented at L,) now the threds MK^ having filled 
^p their place, in the jixis of the other fide, ( as the threds 
ELI doe here) they returnefrom thence back,-and are 
here the fhortefl^Z'r^^j- HN. Thefe HN place themfelves 
again, on the other fide near the ^xis, and returning 
back again, are then OF. and OF coming from the 
other 
