Mathematical propositions about extension & motion true in a double sense.
Extension thought peculiarly inert, because not accompany'd wth pleasure & pain: hence thought to exist in matter; as also for that it was conceiv'd common to 2 senses, [as also the constant perception of 'em].
Blind at 1st sight could not tell how near what he saw was to him, nor even whether it be wthout him or in his eye[205]. Qu. Would he not think the later?
Blind at 1st sight could not know yt wt he saw was extended, until he had seen and touched some one self-same thing—not knowing how minimum tangibile would look in vision.
M.
Mem. That homogeneous particles be brought in to answer the objection of God's creating sun, plants, &c. before animals.
In every bodie two infinite series of extension—the one of tangible, the other of visible.
All things to a blind [man] at first seen in a point.
Ignorance of glasses made men think extension to be in bodies.
M.