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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 de Diprice 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
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 fast to read what remains all we have
of them, because what is lost we can't yet 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 guessed the wrong and sometimes
the right, had consequently guessed the right: which he calls knowing it: witness this

That if wants to learn, the 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
be 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,
nor any other means of making his confecture
: is so much the more instruction.

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