Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A … - Thomas Young

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Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead into it. There would be months of beautifully long, empty days, and each other to play with, and the books from the library.

Thomas Young

Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories.

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The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.

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When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

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The experiments I am about to relate. . . may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one.

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But it will be found. . . that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye by different routes, either exactly or very nearly in the same direction, the appearance or disappearance of various colours is determined by the greater or less difference in the lengths of the paths.

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