( I 
- Eyes judge it at leafc two Inches, but fuppofing it a bare 
inch, and that (as Mr Hookc ^Sinns)6/^o hairs breadth make 
one Inch, the length and breadth of an Objed will by it"be 
augmented 64Q times, the furface 409600, and the folidity 
«uBot.thabeO: IliQrtin power and 
goodnefs of Mr Lmmnhoeks .Glafles, whbfe skill' both in 
making and ufing them I fear we (hall not eafily reach I 
know many queftion the fincerity of his Relations, but I can 
do him that right to affirm that as far as I am able to follow 
Jiim(and I have tried many of his Experiments) I find him al- 
ways faithful in matter 'of fa^, and therefore queftion not his 
veracity in other things. Tisnot fair to fay I have looked on 
fuch ObjeiSs, and found no fuch thing as he mencions. 
There is more than an hafty curfory view required in obfer- 
VitioTis of this kind, there muft be patience and attendance, 
kiid (bme skilt-irt nilnaging the Clafles,Ob)eas and Light to 
the beft advantage,befides there are many lucky hints and co- 
incidences, and all this to little purpofe without a ftrongand 
good natural fight, and an Eye ufed to Glafles ^ for I fcru- 
pie nbt to fay that* a difccrning and critical Eye, as well as 
a^fe'cc ttd good Ear, is gained and improved by Experi- 
Tis a. common and eafie thing to ridicule all Microfcopi* 
cal Enquiries, and judge time trifled away in the examining 
Flies, Mites, &c. But certainly the works of Cod are not 
lefs beautiful and wonderful in the fmaileft than in the 
great6fl: of his Creatures, and many new and furprizing, 
(and 'tis our own fault if not inftruding) inftancesof his 
Providence to be found in them. We (hould think a man 
very perverfe, who would look into no Books but fuch as 
were publifhed in the largeft Volume and Charafters^ fuch 
an one would certainly lofe the greateft part of ufeful learn- 
ing, and I am confident would not be thought a jot the 
wifer for ridituling fuch as read fmaller Prints, the with 
the alliftance of Speftaeles, which (let witty men fay what 
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