A reply to Mr. Robin's remarks on the Essay upon distinct and indistinct vision published at the end of Dr. Smith's Complete system of optiks / by James Jurin.
- James Jurin
- Date:
- 1739
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A reply to Mr. Robin's remarks on the Essay upon distinct and indistinct vision published at the end of Dr. Smith's Complete system of optiks / by James Jurin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 1° ] Accipe nunc Da 'naum infidias, Cr crimine ah uno Difce onmes. This paflage is worded with great art, and is highly worth the imitation of one fet of political writers. Befides the obvious fenfe defigned for the inadvertent Reader, there is another more latent, to be produced upon a proper occafion. This cannot be better fet forth, than by intro¬ ducing a fhort dialogue. J. J. How, Mr. Robins! Do you lay that the/e fits are not fo much as mentioned in Dr. Smith’s Book ? Pray remember the reftraint you are to hold yourfelf under, a juft deference for 'Truth. B. R. I remember it very well. Sir. Catch me in a falfhood, if you can. My words are, thefe fits are not fo much as mentioned by name. J. J. Oh, Sir, your moft humble fervantr. Then you allow them to be mentioned, though not by name. But will you venture to affirm, that they are no where mentioned by name in that Book? B. R. I have not laid this. My words are, thefe fits are not fo much as mentioned by name, wh ere he has undertaken to exhibit Sir Ifaac New- tonb difceveries in Opticks. J. J. 1 do not find, that there is any one place in the book, where Dr. Smith has undertaken to exhibit all Sir Ifaac Newton’s difcoveries in Op- ticks: but fome of thofe difcoveries are exhibit¬ ed in one place, and fome in another. Do you mean therefore, that there is no place in the book, in which any of Sir Ifaac’s difcoveries in Opticks are exhibited, where thefe fits are men¬ tioned by name ? B.R](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30780287_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
