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92 necnon Mathematicis & opticis præceptis, optimè instructis sedulâ ac diligenti inspectione. "Not to one or two, but to very many, and those not ordinary men, but to those who were well vers'd in Mathematickes and Opticks, and that not with a meere glance but with a sedulous and diligent inspection." And least any scruple might remaine unanswered, or you might thinke the men who beheld all this though they might be skilfull, yet they came with credulous minds, and so were more easie to be deluded. He addes that it was shewed, vius qui ad experimenta hæc contradicendi animo accesserant. "To such as were come with a great deale of prejudice, and an intent of contradiction." Thus you may see the certainety of those experiments which were taken by this glasse. I have spoken the more concerning it, because I shall borrow many things in my farther Rh