William Molyneux Quotes

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'Tis manifest by Experiments, that the ordinary Power of Man's Eye extends no farther than perceiving what subtends an Angle of about a Minute, or something less. But when an Eye is armed with a Telescope, it may discern an Angle less than a Second.

William Molyneux

I have been often delighted with the curious Appearance of many Objects seen through the Microscope. But none ever surprised me more, than the visible Circulation of the Blood in Water-Newts (Lacerta aquatica) to be seen as plainly as Water running in a River, and proportionably much more rapid.

William Molyneux

Were there no other use of Optics, than the invention of "Spectacles" for the help of defective Eyes, I should think the advantage which mankind receives, thereby, inferior to no other benefit, whatever, not absolutely requisite to support Life.

William Molyneux