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The Preract. 
accompli(be with prodigious benefit to all forts of ufeful knowledge , by 
the invention of Optical Glaffes.. By the means of Telefcopes, there is 
nothing fo far diftant but may be reprefented to our view ; and by the 
help of Microfcopes; there is.nothing fo {mall, as to efcape our inqui- 
ty ; hence there is: anew vifible World difcovered to the underftanding. 
By this means the Heavens are open'd, and a vaft number of new Stars, 
and new Motions, and new Productions appear in them, to which allthe 
antient Aftronomerswere utterly Strangers. By this the Earth it fel, — 
which byes fo ner us,, under our feet, fbews quite a new thing to us, and 
inevery litle particle of its matter; we now behold aloft asgreat a 
variety of Creatures, as we were able before to reek up in the mbole 
Univerfet felf... 
It feems not siedbable' bi thet by thele helps the fubtley of the 
compofition of Bodies, the firu€iure of their parts, the various texture 
of their matter, the infiruments and manner of their inward motions, 
and all the other pofible appearances of things, may come to be more 
fully dj ifeovered 5 all which the antient Peripateticks were content to 
comprehend in two general and ( unlefs further explaind). ufelefs 
words of Matter and Form.From whence there may arife many admi- 
rable advantages,towards the increafe of the Operative, and the Me- 
chanick Anowledge, to which this Age feems Jo much inclined, becaufe 
we may perhaps be inabled to difcern all the fecret workings of Nature, 
almoftinthe fame manner as we do thofe that are the produtions of 
Art, and are manag’d byW, heels and Hagin and Springs that mere 
cn ae PIS Mabie 
Unthiskind There prefent to " World. my inperfoi Lidonogutes 
sibich though they fhall prove no other: way confiderable,yet, J hope; they 
may. be in fome meafure ufeful to the main Defigniof a reformation 
inP hilofophy, if it be only by fhewing, that there.ts not: Jo vnsich requir d 
towarilsit,any flrength of |magination,or exatinefs of Method.or depth 
of Contemplation(though the addition of thefe,where they canbe. had, 
muft needs produce a.tauch more perfeEt compofirre)as a fincere Hand, 
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