Showing posts with label "Opticks". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Opticks". Show all posts

16 November 2016

"How came the bodies of animals ...."

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?  Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?... and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?
Isaac Newton