I Do Not Feign Hypotheses.

I Have Presented Principles Of Philosophy That Are Not, However, Philosophical But Strictly Mathematical-that Is, Those On Which The Study Of Philosophy Can Be Based. These Principles Are The Laws And Conditions Of Motions And Of Forces, Which Especially Relate To Philosophy.

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.

The Way To Chastity Is Not To Struggle Directly With Incontinent Thoughts But To Avert The Thoughts By Some Imployment, Or By Reading, Or Meditating On Other Things.

Against Filling The Heavens With Fluid Mediums, Unless They Be Exceeding Rare, A Great Objection Arises From The Regular And Very Lasting Motions Of The Planets And Comets In All Manner Of Courses Through The Heavens.

Because Of Diamond, I Have Had To Begin Much Of The Work Afresh. I Will Not, However, Rid Myself Of Her, Nor Even Punish Her. She Knew Not What She Was Doing, And That Which She Did Was For My Protection And For Love Of My Person. Her Place Remains At My Side Or Against My Feet When I Lie Abed.