To Arrive At The Simplest Truth Requires

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.

We Are To Admit No More Causes Of Natural Things Than Such As Are Both True And Sufficient To Explain Their Appearances.

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.

Do Not Several Sorts Of Rays Make Vibrations Of Several Bignesses, Which According To Their Bigness Excite Sensations Of Several Colours, Much After The Manner That The Vibrations Of The Air, According To Their Several Bignesses Excite Sensations Of Several Sounds? And Particularly Do Not The Most Refrangible Rays Excite The Shortest Vibrations For Making A Sensation Of Deep Violet, The Least Refrangible The Largest Form Making A Sensation Of Deep Red, And Several Intermediate Sorts Of Rays, Vibrations Of Several Intermediate Bignesses To Make Sensations Of Several Intemediate Colours?

Nature Does Nothing In Vain When Less Will Serve; For Nature Is Pleased With Simplicity And Affects Not The Pomp Of Superfluous Causes.