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The LONDON JOURNAL.Saturday, slpril 16. 1716.Numb. CCCLI.SIR,To BRITANNIC US.rHE Fame of the great Difcoveries made by Sir Ifaac Keaton is fb ti-niverfally fpreac} throughout the learned World, while the Knogtfcdg^ of them is confined to fb very fewt that the Cimoflty of enquifxrig ibto th6 Secrets of thisPhilolophy mu ft ha vebeen railed to the hiehefi: Pitch, had it not been allayM by the difficmty of gratifying it. The Opinion that thefe Improvements in Natural Philofopny can only be made intelligible to Mathematicians ha5 fo far prevailed, that the generality of thole who. are tumUhed with othcr kinds of Learning, if unqualified. in this, have lcarce ever peramed to lojpjt into them. And thodgh feme of thefe Dif-coveties have been exhibited to the Sight, in a vtfry agreeable manner, by Experiments ; yet the Ingenuities of this Nature, tho’ very ufeful Illuftrations to thole who are competently skilled in thefe Matters, ferve more for Amu foment than InftruSion trr others, who are little acouainted with the Prin-who not having been converiant, in Mathematical Studies, have thought themfolves incapable of fuch agreeable Information. Such of them as have been prevented, by this fancied Incapacity, froth turning their Thoughts on fo delightful a Prolpeft, will be undeceived with Pleafure, and own with Gratitude the Favour of having the Veil thus removed from this myfterious Syfterm Every Gentleman, who has a moderate Degree of Literature or Politenefs, may by this Affiftance form a comprehenfive View of the Ihipendous Frame of Nature, and the Strufiure of the Univerfo, with the fame Eafe he noW acquires a Tafte of the Magnificence of a Plan of Architeure, or the Elegance of a beautiful Plantation ; without en-IPgj11? in the minute and tedious Calculations ne-ceflary to their Production, which he leaves to the Artifts themfolves.Nor can lb entertaining a Volume be denied Ad-miflion into the Ladies Library, when they are informed, that all the Curfofities of Science contained in it, may be comprehended by them with lit-tlf*mnr? AnnlirotiAn on 1C KioftAtlfA/l An O 15 A_thefe the force of this great author’s genius ap pears even with brighter luftre than in the other; lo it is that only, which I have infifted upon; For as I did not undertake to write .a.complete comment on Sir ifaac Kevston; but only to give fuch an account of the difcoveries contained id. his two philofophical treatifos (viz.* Iris Principia and his Optics') as might be acceptable to fuch, as have not gone through a courfo of mathematical ffudies i therefore I conlfantly declined making any mention of the mathematical part of his reafoningi and only attempted to reprefent in the heftjpan-ner, I could, thofo of his arguments, which are purely philofophical, and are the foundation, whereon the mathematical part of his realbning is built. I even avoided, all I could, the ufo of any terms borrowed from the mathematics ^ and where it was not poffible to exprefs my folf without the ufo of filch terms, I took care to explairt them.After this manner, in obedience to fome friends,I formerly drew up an account of whatever Sir Ifaac Nemrtim has in nofurol
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