( ■ 6oo ) 
u The or id in qua tot Hypothefes funt , quot expli- 
a canda Thanomena”. When it is well known that 
Sir Ifaac Newton did not make Hypothefcs to ex- 
plain,but deduced plain Confequencesfrom Thanomena. 
In the Book, Page 57, he 'fays of Richterus his Ad- 
verfary u Si diver [am colorum refrangibilitatem 
“ garricndo tueri de liber at ”, and of Sir Ifaac — 
tc Si Newtonus hallucinatus e/?, quia in uno experi- 
“ mentorum genere fallaciis unici ac difficillimi in - 
c< dulfit ; nos antequam confequentias eliciamus , 
difcimus omnia ejufdem generis experiment a 
« peragrare , a facilioribus incipiendoP Page 76. 
fpeaking of Sir Ifaac <c Nunc igitur confidentius 
cc affirmo , quod cquidem plures , debuerat con - 
“ fequentias ex Thanomenis auffor colie git S Page 
90. “ Quis aufjfet canonem tanti viri impugn are^ 
“ cum cepferunt omnes , qui haltenus eum veluti 
a trutina expenderunt , 5 cc.” Page 91. “ This Ex- 
<c preflion is particularly remarkable — Newtonus 
u Zwr argument andi modo videtur feciffe ut Lesbii , 
<£ Regulam minime accomoda - 
“ rentur , Regulam ad ades accomodarunf\ 
I cannot pafs by what he fays of Richterus in p. 100, 
“ becaufe it is fo applicable to himfelf, Richterum 
4( admonui , ut marte fuo , quod omiferunt alii per - 
“ ficeret ; is autem , fpreta admonitione , videre 
“ ^ natura agatur , potius agere vult , 
<c videtur agendum Page 117. « Gm 
* Zw aultor in medium ferat , parum in its exper- 
u tus ejfe videtur , qua in poliendis vitris occurrunt.” 
Not to be tedious in fuch unpleafant Quotations, I 
proceed to give a Ihort Account of .the Book it felf, to 
ihew how much Pains fome People can take to be in the 
Wrong:, 
