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 o natural a Phænomenon. He calculated the Reflexions and Refractions of Light in Drops of Rain; and his Sagacity on this Occaion was at that Time look'd upon as next to divine.

what would he have aid had it been prov'd to him that he was mitaken in the Nature of Light; that he had not the leat Reaon to maintain that 'tis a globular Body: That 'tis fale to aert, that this Matter preading it elf through the whole, waits only to be projected forward by the Sun, in order to be put in Action, in like Manner as a long Staff acts at one end when puh'd forward by the other. That light is certainly darted by the Sun; in fine, that Light is tranmitted from the Sun to the Earth in about even Minutes, tho' a Cannon Ball, which were not to loe any of its Velocity, cou'd not go that Ditance in les than twenty five Years. How great wou'd have been his Atonihment, had he been told, that Light does not reflect directly by impinging againt the olid Parts of dies;