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Rh and Lewenhoeck diputed with each other the Honour of having firt een the Vermiculi of which Mankind are form'd. This Hartocher alo conteted with Huygens the Invention of a new Method of calculating the Ditance of a fix'd Star. 'Tis not yet known to what Philoopher we owe the Invention of the Cycloid. this as it will, 'tis by the Help of this Geometry of Infinites that Sir Iaac Newton attain'd to the mot ublime Dicoverie. I am now to peak of another Work, which tho' more adapted to the Capacity of the human Mind, does nevertheles diplay ome Marks of that creative Genius with which Sir Iaac Newton was inform'd in all his Reearches. The Work I mean is a Chronology of a new kind, for what Province oever he undertook, he was ure to change the Ideas and Opinions receiv'd by the ret of Men. to unravel and diintangle Chaos's, he was reolv'd to convey at leat ome Light into that of the bles