and may as well conceive the duration of 50,000 years as 5639. Whereby it appears that, to the measuring the duration of anything by time, it is not requisite that that thing should be co-existent to the motion we measure by, or any other periodical revolution;
Eta hemendik argi ateratzen da edozein gauzaren iraupena denboraren bidez neurtzeko ez dela beharrezko gauza hori guk hura neurtzeko erabiltzen dugun higidurarekin edo edozein beste aldizkako biraketarekin batera existitzea;