Every Action Has An Equal And Opposite

Through Algebra You Easily Arrive At Equations, But Always To Pass Therefrom To The Elegant Constructions And Demonstrations Which Usually Result By Means Of The Method Of Porisms Is Not So Easy, Nor Is One's Ingenuity And Power Of Invention So Greatly Exercised And Refined In This Analysis.

The Monarchy Of The Greeks For Want Of An Heir Was Broken Into Several Kingdoms; Four Of Which, Seated To The Four Winds Of Heaven, Were Very Eminent. For Ptolemy Reigned Over Egypt, Lybia And Ethiopia ; Antigonus Over Syria And The Lesser Asia; Lysimachus Over Thrace ; And Cassander Over Macedon, Greece And Epirus .

All Material Things Seem To Have Been Composed Of The Hard And Solid Particles ... Variously Associated With The First Creation By The Counsel Of An Intelligent Agent. For It Became Him Who Created Them To Set Them In Order: And If He Did So, It Is Unphilosophical To Seek For Any Other Origin Of The World, Or To Pretend That It Might Arise Out Of A Chaos By The Mere Laws Of Nature.

An Object That Is At Rest Will Tend To Stay At Rest. An Object That Is In Motion Will Tend To Stay In Motion.

This Excellent Mathematician Having Given Us, In The Transactions Of February Last, An Account Of The Cause, Which Induced Him To Think Upon Reflecting Telescopes, Instead Of Refracting Ones, Hath Thereupon Presented The Curious World With An Essay Of What May Be Performed By Such Telescopes; By Which It Is Found, That Telescopical Tubes May Be Considerably Shortened Without Prejudice To Their Magnifiying Effect. On His Invention Of The Catadioptrical Telescope, As He Communicated To The Royal Society.