The argument that the BNW volumes were primarily bought as souvenirs misses the point, however, that such appropriation in itself represents another example of bibliomigrancy, another case in which the contours of world literature shifted through the physical movements of books.

The essential fact is simply that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational fact, are mathematical pictures.

He believed he kept no particular mistress; for he had heard newelty, that was the man's word, was every thing with him.

Man does vvith dangerous Curioſity / Theſe unfathom'd VVonders try: / VVith fancy'd Rules and Arbitrary Lavvs / Matter and Motion he reſtrains, / And ſtudy'd Lines and fictious Circles dravvs; […]