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June 1

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.

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

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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.

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[Remember] the [instrum{superscript t}], that does direct, unite &c as may be seen in burning glasses &c

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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

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(And examin there deleted the objection deleted that wants nothing but Truth and solidity of which wit and learning can give it but the appearance)

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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.