This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1739 edition. Excerpt: ... Dialogue tke Second. 'That Dualities, fuel) as Light, Colours, and the like, are not really in Bodies. MetaphyJlcal Doubts concerning our Senfations of them. Explication of the general Principles of Optics. al L the while we were at Dinner the Marchionefs entertain'd herfelf with making the Globules ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1739 edition. Excerpt: ... Dialogue tke Second. 'That Dualities, fuel) as Light, Colours, and the like, are not really in Bodies. MetaphyJlcal Doubts concerning our Senfations of them. Explication of the general Principles of Optics. al L the while we were at Dinner the Marchionefs entertain'd herfelf with making the Globules of Light turn round, fometimes one Way, fometimes another, as the different Colours of the Objects before us requir'd, and look'd upon herfelf, as fhe faid, to be the. Emprefs and Arbitratrefs of Nature, fince fhe was poffefs'd of Materials to diverfify it as many Ways as (he pleas'd. pleas'd. As foon as Dinner was over, and we had return'd into the Garden, I am ready, faid fhe, to deprive the Soup of all Tafte, and willingly renounce every Colour, even what I had the greateft Fondnefs for. In fhort, I will be quite a Cartefian, provided you can furnifh me with good Reafons. Thefe Globules, 'tis true, lead me to ftrange Confequences, but perhaps they may furnifti me with fome. Expedient to evade them. You treat Philofophy, anfwer'd I, as Attorneys do the Law. But there is no Expedient that will hold good at the fevere Tribunal of Reafon. Not all the Monarchs in the Univerfe, nor all the Beauties which are far more powerful, can influence the impartial Judgment of Philofophy, ' nor induce it to interpret the leaft Text in their Favour. This is a Trial, a Mortification that Des Cartes will make you undergo in your Novitiate of Philofophy. But are you terrified at fo fmall a Hardfhip as this? Take Courage and featnothing; you will at laft add to the Pleafure, you receive from your Senfes, E 3 that that of contending with them, and giving them no Credit. Hitherto, faid the Marchionefs, I have only the Mortification of feeing that we are under a.
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All Editions of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of the Ladies: in Six Dialogues on Light and Colours. from the Italian of Sig. Algarotti
