All My Discoveries Have Been

I Have Been Much Amused At Ye Singular Phenomena Resulting From Bringing Of A Needle Into Contact With A Piece Of Amber Or Resin Fricated On Silke Clothe. Ye Flame Putteth Me In Mind Of Sheet Lightning On A Small-how Very Small-scale.

I Do Not Define Time, Space, Place, And Motion, As Being Well Known To All. Only I Must Observe, That The Common People Conceive Those Quantities Under No Other Notions But From The Relation They Bear To Sensible Objects. And Thence Arise Certain Prejudices, For The Removing Of Which It Will Be Convenient To Distinguish Them Into Absolute And Relative, True And Apparent, Mathematical And Common.

Thus You May Multiply Each Stone 4 Times & No More For They Will Then Become Oyles Shining In Ye Dark And Fit For Magicall Uses. You May Ferment Them With Gold And Silver, By Keeping The Stone And Metal In Fusion Together For A Day, & Then Project Upon Metalls. This Is The Multiplication Of Ye Stone In Vertue. To Multiply It In Weight Ad To It Of Ye First Gold Whether Philosophic Or Vulgar.

His Epitaph: Who, By Vigor Of Mind Almost Divine, The Motions And Figures Of The Planets, The Paths Of Comets, And The Tides Of The Seas First Demonstrated.

All The Characters Of The Passion Agree To The Year 34; And That Is The Only Year To Which They All Agree.