I should never have uttered the name Newton before I began reading Newton.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s talk a little more about Newton and the bodkin. Let me spell out that this inquirer, Sir Isaac Newton, this explorer drove a large coat-sewing needle between the bone of his eye socket and the orb of his eyeball, and squashed the orb of his own eye with the flat side of the needle, more and less and in different ways, and wrote down what the maneuvers did to his vision, and again in varying kinds of lights. \u00a0 I have recently encountered my very own bodkins \u2013\u00a0 which is unusual, and then twice in the same week. \u00a0When I saw the first one, I wondered, why is there only this thick sewing needle when I have to tack the front of this fancy top? I used it anyway.\u00a0 Then I read about Newton\u2019s bodkin. Today I found a second even larger bodkin mysteriously on my own bookshelves, like a relic reminder of my own devotion to my work.<\/p>\n here\u2019s what he wrote<\/a>, in the shape it appeared on his notebook page, double spaced so you can see the undersides of the words:<\/p>\n I tooke a bodkin gh<\/p>\n & put it betwixt my<\/p>\n eye & the bone as<\/p>\n neare to the<\/p>\n backside of my eye<\/p>\n as I could: & pressing<\/p>\n my eye with the end of<\/p>\n it (soe as to make the<\/p>\n curvature a, bcdef in my<\/p>\n eye) there appeared severall<\/p>\n white darke & coloured circles<\/p>\n r, s, t, etc. Which circles were<\/p>\n plainest when I continued to rub my eye with the<\/p>\n point of the bodkin, but if I held my eye & the<\/p>\n bodkin still, though I continued to presse my eye<\/p>\n with it yet the circles would grow faint<\/p>\n & often disappeare untill I renewed them by moving<\/p>\n my eye or the bodkin.<\/p>\n -Sir Isaac Newton<\/p>\n So, about whether primary experience has anything to do with the basic building blocks of Science, better ask Big Data, or The Hive, or how about the self?\u00a0 The primary experience? \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Where is my bodkin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vision only needs a pinhole, we only need a pinhole to see a Universe. My day opens into my work.\u00a0 I ask into the Cloud of Unknowing, and am referred to the Cloud of Knowing Even Less. I look in my mind and I can see there won\u2019t be the careful precise recording of every … Continue reading The Russian word for magic is focus<\/span> ![\"antique](\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/antique-bodkin.jpg\")
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