that is, all objects distant from us more than two hundred feet, or whose distance from the place where we are exceeds that which we can distinctly conceive, seem to be an equal distance from us, and all in the same plane; so also objects, whose time of existing is conceived as removed from the present by a longer interval than we can distinctly conceive, seem to be all equally distant from the present, and are set down, as it were, to the same moment of time.)
hau da, nola gureganik berrehun oin baino gehiagora diren objektu guztiak hots, gu gauden tokitik haien distantzia, guk bereiziki irudika dezakeguna, gainditzen dutenak gureganik denak distantzia berean eta plano berean balira bezala irudikatu ohi baititugu, hala existitzeko denbora, orainalditik urrun dagoen tartea bereiziki irudikatzen ohi duguna baino luzeagoa duten objektuak ere, orainalditik distantzia berean irudikatzen ditugu eta, nolazpait errateko, denboraren une bakar eta berari egokitzen).