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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![[ 55 ] his interpreters, who had an opportunity of know- ing his true mind. It he ihali fay, there is not indeed any exprefs paflage in Sir Ifaac Newton, nor yet in his inter¬ preter, where fueh proportion is affigned, or where the extent of thefe fits is at all mentioned, or appears to have been fo much as thought of; but yet this proportion of equality is necejfary to¬ wards producing the appearances related by Sir Ifaac Newton I fhall do myfelf the honour to teach him and his Matter, how all thofe appear¬ ances, even thofe which in page i o6 of thefe Re¬ marks, are with fo much confidence alledged againft me, may be folved without admitting that proportion. This undertaking, I apprehend, will be thought by Mr. Robins a piece of mnch greater prefumption, than what he had reprimanded me for before, of taking upon me to improve upon Sir Ifaac Newton, in relation to the extent of the fits of eafy reflexion and eafy tranfmiffion. But this laft named piece of prefumption will need little Apology. Sir Ifaac Newton by car¬ rying his enquiries into nature fo far as he has done, has enabled thofe that come after him, to proceed farther. He in one place tells us himfelf, that not having tried all the experiments he in¬ tended, his defign was to communicate what he had tried, and to leave the reft to others lor far¬ ther enquiry. Now my fubjedt leading me to examine into the quantity of light reflected back from the iirft furface of a pellucid body, and this being a new enquiry into which neither Sir Ifaac Newton, nor any other Author, that I knew of, had ever i \](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30780287_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
