The chief works of Benedict de Spinoza,
translated from the latin by R.H.M. Elwes,
London, George Bell and sons,
1891
Introduction :
a short treatise on the
rainbow
Skill in polishing lenses gave him sufficient money for
his scanty needs, and he acquired a reputation as an optician
before he became known as a philosopher. It was in
this capacity that he was consulted by Leibnitz.
His only
contribution to the science was a short treatise on the
rainbow, printed posthumously in 1687.
This was long
regarded as lost, but has, in our own time, been recovered
and reprinted by Dr. Van Vloten.
TlIEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE,
Chap. VI. Of Miracles:
His
bow in the cloud
In Genesis ix. 13, God tells Noah that He will set His
bow in the cloud;
this action of God's is but another way
of expressing the refraction and reflection which the rays
of the sun are subjected to in drops of water.
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