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Thoughts for the day of rain. In two essay's
Thoughts for the day of rain. In two essay's: I. The Gospel of the rainbow. In the meditations of piety, on the appearance of the bright clouds, with the bow of God upon them. II. The Saviour with his rainbow. And the covenant which God will remember to his people in the cloudy times that are passing over them. / By Cotton Mather., D.D. ; [Seven lines of quotations]
printed by B. Green, 1712
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The Acute and Accurate Mr. Halley comes after the French Philosopher, and shows how the Cartesian Problems were more easily solved than the Author himself imagined, He shows how to determine the Angle, by which the Iris is distant from the opposite Point of the Sun, and the Ratio of the Refraction being given Geometrically, or, Vice Versa, the Iris being given, to determine the Refractive Power of the Liquor. And he goes on to Cultivate the Subject, with the Ingenuity proper to that accomplished Gentleman.
But then comes the Admirable Sir Isaac Newton; One whom I may venture to call The Perpetual Dictator of the Learned World in the Principles of Natural Philosophy; and the most Sagacious Reasoner upon the Laws of Nature, that has yet Shone among Mankind; and which is the Crown of all, The most Victorious ⟨p. iv⟩Assertor of an Infinite GOD, that hath appeared in the bright Army of them that have driven the baffled Herd of Atheists away from the Tents of Humanity. This Rare Person, in his Incomparable Treatise of Optics, has yet further Explained the Phenomena of the Rainbow; & has not only shown how the Bow is made, but also how the COLOURS are formed; How the Rays do strike the Senses, with the Colours, in the Order which is required by their Degrees of Refrangibility, in the Progress from the Inside of the Bow to the Outside; the Violet, the Indigo, the Blue, the Green, the Yellow, the Orange, and the Red.
But then comes the Admirable Sir Isaac Newton; One whom I may venture to call The Perpetual Dictator of the Learned World in the Principles of Natural Philosophy; and the most Sagacious Reasoner upon the Laws of Nature, that has yet Shone among Mankind; and which is the Crown of all, The most Victorious ⟨p. iv⟩Assertor of an Infinite GOD, that hath appeared in the bright Army of them that have driven the baffled Herd of Atheists away from the Tents of Humanity. This Rare Person, in his Incomparable Treatise of Opticks, has yet further Explained the Phaenomena of the Rainbow; & has not only shown how the Bow is made, but also how the COLOURS are form'd; How the Rays do strike the Senses, with the Colours, in the Order which is required by their Degrees of Refrangibility, in the Progress from the Inside of the Bow to the Outside; the Violet, the Indico, the Blue, the Green, the Yellow, the Orange, and the Red.