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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.

I Understood. I Have Understood. I Do Understand.

To Derive Two Or Three General Principles Of Motion From Phænomena, And Afterwards To Tell Us How The Properties And Actions Of All Corporeal Things Follow From Those Manifest Principles, Would Be A Very Great Step In Philosophy.

Absolute, True And Mathematical Time, Of Itself, And From Its Own Nature Flows Equably Without Relation To Anything External.

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.