"We would wish to discover the Plan of the Universe, and the means employed by the Eternal Architect in the execution …"

"But, are the faculties of our nature equal to this? and what are the principles which ought to guide us in these rese…"

"We suppose the existence of a wise and beneficent Being who presided over the formation of the World, and who is plea…"

"We will found our hypothesis in the general laws of motion, whose effects are every where the same, and whose influen…"

"We will next proceed by the lamp of experience, consulting with care the observations deposited in the records of ast…"

"In order to supply the defects of experience, we will have recourse to the probable conjectures of analogy, conclusio…"

"This is all to which weak and limited beings can pretend, beings who occupy a point, and last but a moment in this mi…"

"The famous Lambert, another Leibnitz, because of the universality and thoroughness of his knowledge, deserves a place…"

"Lambert was an 18th century Alsatian scholar, who is today regarded as a physicist, geometer, statistician, astronome…"

"If in two ellipses having a common major axis we take two such arcs that their chords are equal, and that also the su…"