A new and compendious system of optics ... / By Benjamin Martin.

  • Benjamin Martin
Date:
1740
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Credit: A new and compendious system of optics ... / By Benjamin Martin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    my, Dialling, Surveying, &*c. How lame and imperfect muft any of thofe Arts and Artifls bey were they not af~ > fifed and Juccoured by the Principles and Rules of this noble Science f **V AG AI Nf If we regard Curiofi- ty, what Science can compare with Optics, in the whole Encyclopaedia f What Gratifications of Senfe fo exqui- fite as thofe of Sight f By Optics the Heavens have been revealed to us; the Spots and Feculce on the Face of the Sun, the Horns and warning Phafes of Venus, the Mountains and Viales in the Moon, the Satellites and Belts of Jupiter, and Saturn with his wondrous Ring ; befedes innumerable Stars not otherwife to be feen but by the ‘Tele- feope ! What Pleafure, yea, how ufe- ful is it, to have QbjeEls thirty or forty Miles