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Dutens views congenial to my own. That if a man means for example to understand Optics
he may read Newton's book upon
the subject if he has nothing else to do
(for it would be wrong entirely to neglect
the moderns) but that the way to be deep
in it is to read Euclid dr Diprie because a certain Archimedes
(as a certain Tzetzes who lived some 800 eight
or ten hundred years after more or less
says in some verses he wrote upon
he had heard) set the Roman Ship's Fleet on
fire at the siege of Syracuse, which by
means of a large of Looking-glasses Glass:, which
seemed so pretty to the Romans besiegers that
they sent their Ships one after another
into the focus, and would not suffer a
stick nor a stone to be flung [till they were
all burnt] for fear of breaking it till it
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was put into its case.
That Relation has shown that utility is the
measure of all our sound judgment on
the morality of actions, and ought to be of
all of them: but that the way to come
at the bottom of the matter is to read
because considering that ......... knew
of Original Sin, as well as if he had
subscribed to the 39 Articles.
That we should not fail to read what remains all we have
of them, because what is lost we can't get might contain
a great deal more than we are aware
of.
Because, in a great cases that might be mentioned where there was but
a wrong and a right, and the moderns have
found means to prove the right, the ancients who
had sometimes guessed the wrong and sometimes
the right, had consequently guessed the right: which he calls knowing it: witness this
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That if wants to learn, Anatomy the structure of the human body and
has a good deal of times upon his hands
he may indeed look in now and then
at Dr Hunter's Theatre, but that he
must whatever he does let by all means get Hyppocrates
by heart who never saw the inside of a
man human creature in his life.
That some superficial notion of Astronomy
may be picked up from Delalande,
but that to be master of it one should read
Plutarch lives because Who knows somebody said
looking at the milky way about
1500 or a couple of thousand years ago,
Who knows but there was is maybe a parcel
of this that makes the Sky look
so white there, tho' be we can't see them?
+ + v. 168.
The consequence is that if a man would make himself master of Astronomy, he should which has he had no Telescope to look through, to see whether it was so or no
nor any other means of making his conjecture
good: is so much the more instructive satisfactory. read Plutarch's lives
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That the ancients have got long ago to the
point [of perfection] we are struggling to
reach + + p. 6.
that Democritus was a great genius, for It
came into his head once, that there may be
risings in the surface of the moon as well
as none, and that the spots we see may be the
vallies between those risings: Ergo, Democritus was a great genius: that The moderns
indeed have proved that there are such risings
and taken measure of them, but that that's
a mechanical drudgery they might be ashamed
of. p. 819
That Locke "has advanced nothing which is not
"as clearly explained in the writings of the
"ancients as in his own" p. 12, 12
That the Sum total of knowledge we possess at present is
a picture of which the ancients have contributed
the canvas and we the colours painting: p. 9. consequently
in order to understand it we had best not trouble ourselves
much to look at with looking examining the painting, but go on tother
side and look at count the threads —
DUTENS
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