No Sciences Are Better Attested Than The

Is Not Fire A Body Heated So Hot As To Emit Light Copiously? For What Else Is A Red Hot Iron Than Fire? And What Else Is A Burning Coal Than Red Hot Wood?

Daniel Was In The Greatest Credit Amongst The Jews, Till The Reign Of The Roman Emperor Hadrian . And To Reject His Prophecies, Is To Reject The Christian Religion. For This Religion Is Founded Upon His Prophecy Concerning The Messiah .

Gravity Explains The Motions Of The Planets, But It Cannot Explain Who Sets The Planets In Motion.

[1.] And First I Suppose That There Is Diffused Through All Places An Aethereal Substance Capable Of Contraction & Dilatation, Strongly Elastick, & In A Word, Much Like Air In All Respects, But Far More Subtile. 2. I Suppose This Aether Pervades All Gross Bodies, But Yet So As To Stand Rarer In Their Pores Then In Free Spaces, & So Much Ye Rarer As Their Pores Are Less ... 3. I Suppose Ye Rarer Aether Within Bodies & Ye Denser Without Them, Not To Be Terminated In A Mathematical Superficies, But To Grow Gradually Into One Another.

If I Have Ever Made Any Valuable Discoveries, It Has Been Due More To Patient Attention, Than To Any Other Talent