As A Blind Man Has

[1.] And First I Suppose That There Is Diffused Through All Places An Aethereal Substance Capable Of Contraction & Dilatation, Strongly Elastick, & In A Word, Much Like Air In All Respects, But Far More Subtile. 2. I Suppose This Aether Pervades All Gross Bodies, But Yet So As To Stand Rarer In Their Pores Then In Free Spaces, & So Much Ye Rarer As Their Pores Are Less ... 3. I Suppose Ye Rarer Aether Within Bodies & Ye Denser Without Them, Not To Be Terminated In A Mathematical Superficies, But To Grow Gradually Into One Another.

I Am Ashamed To Tell You To How Many Figures I Carried These Calculations [of Pi], Having No Other Business At The Time

Are Not All Hypotheses Erroneous, In Which Light Is Supposed To Consist In Pression Or Motion, Propagated Through A Fluid Medium? For In All These Hypotheses The Phaenomena Of Light Have Been Hitherto Explain'd By Supposing That They Arise From New Modifications Of The Rays; Which Is An Erroneous Supposition.

I Do Not Know What I May Appear To The World, But To Myself I Seem To Have Been Only A Boy Playing On The Seashore.

The Daily Disappearance And The Subsequent Rise Of The Sun Appeared To Many Of The Ancients As A True Resurrection; Thus, While The East Came To Be Regarded As The Source Of Light And Warmth, Happiness And Glory, The West Was Associated With Darkness And Chill, Decay And Death. This Led To The Custom Of Burying The Dead So As To Face The East When They Rose Again, And Of Building Temples And Shrines With An Opening Toward The East. To Effect This, Vitruvius, Two Thousand Years Ago, Gave Precise Rules, Which Are Still Followed By Christian Architects.