OF

THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND DISCOVERIES

OF

SIR ISAAC NEWTON.

BY SIR DAVID BREWSTER, K.H.

A.M., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., AND M.R.I.A.,

One of the Eight Associates of the Imperial Institute of France-Officer of the Legion of Honour-
Chevalier of the Prussian Order of Merit of Frederick the Great-Honorary or Corresponding
Member of the Academies of St. Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen,

Stockholm, Munich, Göttingen, Brussels, Haerlem, Erlangen, Canton de

Vaud, Modena, Florence, Venice, Washington, New York, Boston,

Quebec, Cape Town, etc. etc.; and Principal and Vice-
Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh.

Second Edition.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH:

EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS.

MDCCCLX.

Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit, et extra
Processit longe flammantia monia mundi;

Atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.

LUCRETIUS, Jib. i. 1. 73.