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labours he looked reverently up to the One Great Light 

 whose guiding power he loved to trace and to acknowledge 

 in all the wonders of the universe. He died in 1727 at 

 eighty-five years of age, and was buried in Westminster 

 Abbey, his pall being borne by the first nobles of the land. 



Chief Works consulted. Newton's 'Optics,' 1721; Ganot's 

 * Physics;' Rossiter's ' Physics ;' Brewster's 'Encyclopaedia,' art. 

 'Optics;' Herschel's 'Familiar Lectures ;' Newton's 'Principia,' 

 Book II. ; Brewster's ' Life of Newton.' 



