dissipations of heterogeneous rays refracted in different mediums, wich undoubtedly belongs to you, and your very happy and ingenious application of that discovery does you very much honour, and I have for my part made me a true pleasure publickly and privatly to acknowledge the obligations I think the learned world has to you upon that account. I have owned likevise, you know, and do own still, that without that discovery of yours I might never applied my thought to the subject of aberration treated of in my paper. And I think I have done you the strictest justice in all respects. [Witness this very paper, which you now so strongly and undeservedly endeavor to debase.][1] If you pretend to chare in my other discoverys, the fairest way you could take, seemes to be to produse your own and to let other people be uninquieted. For as to the new Method, you have taken[2] [upon so frivolous pretenses to vindicate to yourself the inventions contained in other mans workings, about Matter, wherin you have given not one word; that method, I say] I can foretell you, never will succed to your wishes. If you will not belive me, I shall furnish you with two occasions more of trying again, how that method will do. Mr. Clairaut at Paris is now about to publish something upon the subject of aberrations and their corrections, and the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Petersburg has proposed as a problem to be solved for the next years price: How far the Imperfections of optical Instruments, arising from both aberrations, may be removed by multiplying the glasses. And I do not see but you will have as fair a claim to whathever shall come abroad upon these occasions as to anything in my paper.
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- ↑ I 2 står inom [ ] ... With me, upon pretenses, that I have proved either to be false or frivolous, to attribute to yourself the inventions contained in my Paper, in matters where you have given not one word, that I know, either in public or to me in particular, that method, I say, always will be deemd a very unjust one to any intelligent judge, and ...
