o be
visible, though view'd with a _Microscope_ (which magnifies the Object, in
bulk, above a million of times) yet I doubt not, but were we able
_practically_ to make _Microscopes_ according to the _theory_ of them, we
might find hills, and dales, and pores, and a sufficient bredth, or
expansion, to give all those parts elbow-room, even in the blunt top of the
very Point of any of these so very sharp bodies. For certainly the
_quantity_ or extension of any body may be _Divisible in infinitum_, though
perhaps not the _matter_.

But to proceed: The Image we have here exhibited in the first Figure[1],
was the top of a small and very sharp Needle, whose point _aa_ nevertheless
appear'd through the _Microscope_ above a quarter of an inch broad, not
round nor flat, but _irregular_ and _uneven_; so that it seem'd to have
been big enough to have afforded a hundred armed Mites room enough to be
rang'd by each other without endangering the breaking one anothers necks,
by being thrust off on either side. The surface of which, though appearing
to the naked eye very smooth, could not nevertheless hide a multitude of
holes and scratches and ruggednesses from being discover'd by the
_Microscope_ to invest it, several of which inequalities (as A, B, C,
seem'd _holes_ made by some small specks of _Rust_; and D some
_adventitious body_, that stuck very close to it) were _casual_. All the
rest that roughen the surface, were onely so many marks of the rudeness and
bungling of _Art_. So unaccurate is it, in all its productions, even in
those which seem most neat, that if examin'd with an organ more acute then
that by which they were made, the more we see of their _shape_, the less
appearance will there be of their _beauty_: whereas in the works of
_Nature_, the deepest Discoveries shew us the greatest Excellencies. An
evident Argument, that he that was the Author of all these things, was no
other then _Omnipotent_; being able to include as great a variety of parts
and contrivances in the yet smallest Discernable Point, as in those vaster
bodies (which comparatively are called also Points) such as the _Earth_,
_Sun_, or _Planets_. Nor need it seem strange that the Earth it self may be
by _Analogie_ call'd a Physical Point: For as its body, though now so near
us as to fill our eys and fancies with a sense of the vastness of it, may
by a little Distance, and some convenient _Diminishing_ Glasses, be made
vanish into a scarce visible Speck, or