Discovery



Ev'n Light itself, which every thing displays,
Shone undiscover'd, till his brighter mind
Untwisted all the shining robe of day;
And, from the whitening undistinguish'd blaze,
Collecting every ray into his kind,

-James Thomson,
A Poem Sacred to the Memory
of Sir Isaac Newton
, 1727







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