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Rh Phyician and Surgeon who attended him in his lat Moments.

may admire Sir Iaac Newton on this Occaion, but then we mut not cenure Des Cartes. Opinion that generally prevails in England with regard to thee new Philoophers is, that the latter was a Dreamer, and the former a Sage.

few People in England read Decartes, whofe Works indeed are now ueles. On the other Side, but a mall Number perue thoe of Sir Iaac, becaue to do this the Student mut be deeply kill'd in the Mathematicks, otherwie thoe Works will be unintelligible to him. But notwithtanding this, thee great Men are the Subjet of every One's Dicoure. Sir Iaac Newton is allow'd every Advantage, whilt Des Cartes is not indulg'd a ingle one. According to ome, 'tis to the former that we owe the Dicovery of a Vacuum, that the Air is a heavy Body, and the Invention of Telecopes. In a Word, Sir Iaac Newton is here as the Hercules of fabulous Story, to whom the Ignorant Rh