[ 'Remember to prove in the 16 Essay that' deleted] Their['T' altered from 't'] may <perhaps> be no want <neither> in the Mechanical principles nor of [ 'the' deleted] knowledge of them, to implicate <in general> the Phenomena of nature [ 'their recited;' deleted] <but>[replacing 'that'] we may yet want Mechanical contrivances, to enable us to give large <modells or> patterns of the works of Nature. Archimedes wanted not skill in the Mechanical powers, but yet knew not how to make a watch &c. Nor is it requisite that the king of China [ 'there mention'd' deleted] should be able in so short a time as the Mech. <Philosophy>[replacing 'pH.[?]', Greg hand] has been well cultivated should know how all kinds of <watches> pumps and windmills &c are contriv'd, tho he might know a watch &c to be not an Animal but an Engine.

<Cr.>[replacing 'Rr in the same tract'] the difference between Ptoloma's geographical description of the Indies and Linschottens Voyage.

Apply the Alphabet (and its consequence) as 'tis made up of straight and crooked lines, and the reduction of a [past][unclear] to a determinat number of small Cylinders.

Rr the instrument, that does direct, unite &c as may be seen in burning glasses &c

Apply [ 'in the 17 Essay' deleted] what is said of numbers &c whose concinuityes and coincidencies doe not [ 'follow' deleted] happen to fall so near one another as men are apt to imagine, as may be exemplifyed in the Square and Cube numbers to be met with in a Geometrical progression, as 1, 2, 4, 8, &c. [ '(' deleted]

(And examin [ 'there' deleted] the objection [ '[approximately 1 character illegible]' deleted] that wants nothing but Truth and solidity of which wit and learning can give it but the appearance)

[ 'Shew there,' deleted] There['T' altered from 't'] are those that will never hold their peace, till they have no more to say, and to pass for able men <they>[replacing 'we'] must meet with Readers that are not so.