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This Thing Is But A Puny Imitation Of A Much Grander System Whose Laws You Know, And I Am Not Able To Convince You That This Mere Toy Is Without A Designer Or Maker; Yet You Profess To Believe That The Great Original From Which The Design Is Taken Has Come Into Being Without Either Designer Or Maker! Now Tell Me By What Sort Of Reasoning Do You Reach Such An Incongruous Conclusion?

This Excellent Mathematician Having Given Us, In The Transactions Of February Last, An Account Of The Cause, Which Induced Him To Think Upon Reflecting Telescopes, Instead Of Refracting Ones, Hath Thereupon Presented The Curious World With An Essay Of What May Be Performed By Such Telescopes; By Which It Is Found, That Telescopical Tubes May Be Considerably Shortened Without Prejudice To Their Magnifiying Effect. On His Invention Of The Catadioptrical Telescope, As He Communicated To The Royal Society.

Pictures, Propagated By Motion Along The Fibers Of The Optic Nerves In The Brain, Are The Cause Of Vision.

One [method] Is By A Watch To Keep Time Exactly. But, By Reason Of The Motion Of The Ship, The Variation Of Heat And Cold, Wet And Dry, And The Difference Of Gravity In Different Latitudes, Such A Watch Hath Not Yet Been Made.

The Wonderful Arrangement And Harmony Of The Cosmos Would Only Originate In The Plan Of An Almighty Omniscient Being. This Is And Remains My Greatest Comprehension.