Thirdly, the opinion that light is engendred faster in hard bodies, as glasse, than in thin and fluid, as aire. Fourthly, that objects are seen by _penicilli_ that have their common base in the pupills: for y^e center of y^e eye is in their common base. Fifthly, the opinion that there bee other visuali lines by which wee see distinctly besides y^e optique axis. Sixthly, the opinion that perspective glasses and amplifying glasses are best made of hyperbolicall figures. Seventhly, the opinion that light is a bodie, or any other such thing than such light as wee have in dreames. Eighthly, that y^e object appeares greater and lesse in ye same proportion that y^e angles have under which they are seene. Lastly, is to be cast away the conceipt of millions of strings in ye optique nerve, by which the object playes upon the braine, and makes y^e soule listen unto it, and other innumerable such trash. How doe I feare that y^e attentive reader will find that which I have delivered concerning y^e _Optiques_ fitt to bee cast outt as rubbish among the rest. If hee doe, hee will recede from y^e authoritie of experience, which confirmeth all I have said. Butt if it bee found true doctrine, (though yett it wanteth polishing), I shall deserve the reputation of having beene y^e first to lay the grounds of two sciences; this of _Optiques_, y^e most curious, and y^t other of _Natural Justice_, which I have done in my booke DE CIVE, y^e most profitable of all other. ----- Footnote 8: Harleian MS. 3360: a treatise on Optics, entitled “A minute or first draught of the Optiques. In two parts. By Thomas Hobbes. At Paris, 1646.” The second part, _On Vision_, we have in Latin, in the DE HOMINE: the first, _On Illumination_, was never published. The dedication to the Marquis of Newcastle, and the concluding paragraph, is all that is here given of the treatise. ----- VIII. TO THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THOMAS HOBBES[9] Sheweth, that though your Majesty hath been pleased to take off the restraint of late years laid upon the pensions payable out of your privy purse, yet your Majesty’s Officers refuse to pay the pension of your petitioner without your Majesty’s express command. And humbly beseaceth your Majesty, (considering his extreme age, perpetual infirmity, frequent and long sickness, and the aptness of his enemies to take any occasion to report that your petitioner by some ill behaviour hath forfeited your wonted favour), that you would be pleased to renew your order for the payment of it in such manner as to his great comfort he hath for many years enjoyed it.[10] And daily prayeth to God Almighty to bless your Majesty with long life, constant health, and happinesse. ----- Footnote 9: Additional MSS. 4292. Brit. Mus. Footnote 10: