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As I Am Writing, Another Illustration Of Ye Generation Of Hills Proposed Above Comes Into My Mind. Milk Is As Uniform A Liquor As Ye Chaos Was. If Beer Be Poured Into It & Ye Mixture Let Stand Till It Be Dry, The Surface Of Ye Curdled Substance Will Appear As Rugged & Mountanous As The Earth In Any Place.

The Qualities Of Bodies, Which Admit Neither Intension Nor Remission Of Degrees, And Which Are Found To Belong To Fill Bodies Within The Reach Of Our Experiments, Are To Be Esteemed The Universal Qualities Of All Bodies Whatsoever.

What Descartes Did Was A Good Step. You Have Added Much Several Ways, And Especially In Taking The Colours Of Thin Plates Into Philosophical Consideration. If I Have Seen A Little Further It Is By Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants.

No Old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) Love Mathematicks.

My Design In This Book Is Not To Explain The Properties Of Light By Hypotheses, But To Propose And Prove Them By Reason And Experiments: In Order To Which, I Shall Premise The Following Definitions And Axioms.