XLVII.
H. OLDENBURG À R. MORAY.
[1~5].
D'après "An addition to the Correfpondance of Spinoza", par A. Wolf dans ~Phitofbphy, The journat ofthe British InHitute for Philofophy", Vo). X, Kr. 38, Avri) t03s. <
London,0~7, t66<
1 should not have interrupted you fo foon again, aller my letter to you but t\vo dayes fince, ifl had not been obliged to advertife you, that 1 have at length tcnt the role wherein Hevelius his Prodromus') is contained, by a barge, carrying things for his Highnes, P. Rupert, the Bargeman Richard Mofe; the Duke or Yorks confectioner in it. 1 have been fo ambiguous about a conveniency of fending, that 1 have not known, how to make the adrene, tbmetimes there hath been one, whereby it feemed better to make it to M. Boyle, then another when it appeared more proper to make it to you.
1 should have faid nothing more at this time, but thatjuit now there comes to my y hands a letter from an odd Philofopher, that lives in Holland but no Hollander, who having lately converfed with M. Hugens writes to me thus:
~'cA~ WM/y~cwM ~) apud Dn. //Mgc/w/w vidi, qui c/w /~M~ non /7/MM/ 3); M~/fM an quia </e~M agit, deque iis concludit, ea minime y/i'/c~ longittldinibus inveniendis, qtrod ~/f/ [ne] /7~/w /c/y?~ adverfatur.
Scire c/M, quid jfVo/?/7/ de 7~</M/ Hugenianis novis /w;~ ~). Nil c~<
') Voyez la p. 573 du T. XX!.
~) Voyez la p. 508 T. V ainsi que la p. 795 du T. XXI.
3) Comparez ce que Huygens dit dans le Cosmotheoros sur l'Iter exstaticum" de Kircher, T. XXt,p.76/.
4) En septembre 1665 Odenburgavait écrit àSpinoza:KirchenMundusSubterraneusnondum in mundo nostro AogHcocomparuit. Quid,amabo,estratesjudica))tde Pendutis Hugenianis, imprimis de illorum génère, qua: adeo exactam temporis mensuram exhibere dicuntur, ut Longitudinibus in mari inveniendis possint inservire? Quid etiam sit deipsiusDioptrica,et Tractatu de Motu, quem utrumque diu jam exspectavimus