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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

John Dryden
Nature, Eye, Science
John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (1995). “The Poems of John Dryden: 1693-1696”, p.302, Pearson Education

Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that almost a new Nature has been revealed to us? that more errours of the School have been detected, more useful Experiments in Philosophy have been made, more Noble Secrets in Opticks, Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated.

John Dryden
Philosophy, School, Science
John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.4055, Delphi Classics

Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.

John Dryden
Art, Hard Work, Science
John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

John Dryden
Science, Harmony, Universal
John Dryden (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.83, Courier Corporation

Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know, And on the Lunar world securely pry.

John Dryden
Ocean, Science, Moon
John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.66

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