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R EASON 8 


AGAINST. 


Mr. Hutchinſon s BILL and Printed R EASO NS. 


' 201 Pocket 2 atch, 
the Wheels. 


N ote, 77 Hat he calls ha Portable M, o ment, 1s but ac 
wi th a little Difference in the Shape and 22 ton of ſome | 


HE Artiſts in making Clocks and Watches freely own their Obligations to 
Specu lative Mathematicians; And yet they, with all Humility, affirm, That 


they are themſelves not only Mechanicks, but alſo Mathematicians in their own 
Trade, and have, notwithſtanding Mr. Hutchinſon's bold and falſe Aſſertions, found 
out many uſeful Motions and Variations, for which they were in no wiſe beholden 
to thoſe Men of Learning. 

And was not this Projector in baſt to be diſtinguiſhed by an Act of Parliament, his 
pretended Invention, which he himſelf owns wants both Tryal and Improvement, might, 
by the Help of Clock and Watchmakers, if found uſeful, deſerve ſome ſort of Coun- 
tenance. 

Our Conſtitution allows the Crown to grant a Patent for 14 Years, to recompenſe 
Inventions really new; and ſuch a Patent hath been hitherto accounted a ſufficient En- 
couragement and Reward. 

His {a4 ing in his Petition, that his Invention (Which! is not his, bur the Invention of 
the Watchmakers them! elves) requires much Tine and Conirivance to bring it to Perfeion, 
and his asking for an Act, inſtead of a Parent, beſides the Aſſurance it ſnews, manifeſt- 
eth plainly that he hath not, to this Hour, brought it to any Degree of Perfection, 
ard yet he would prohibit Workmen, who underſtand things of that Nature better 


than himſeif, from adding to or improving (unleſs they will work under him, which I 


no conſiderable Man ever will) the little Sketch he thinks he ha found out. 

Indeed he ſaith, his Movements muſt be made by our Hands, and at our Price. 

But can this be ſo? for, if we work under him, it muſt be # his Price, and, if he 
obtains an Act, we car; work for no Body but him, or thoſe he is pleaſed to Licence. 
And he will have it in his Power nat only to ſet his Price on us, but on all Her 

Majeſty? s Subjects who have a Mind to theſe Sort of Watches; for they cannot, when 
the Act is paſſed, buy them, z the Queens Dominions, of any Artilts but of him, and 
ſuch as he thinks fit to Licence; and he, and his Under: Uezkmen, when they have 


ſach a Monopoly, may demand their own Rates. 
What Princes and States Abroad do in ſuch Caſes, we neither know, nor is our Le- 


gillature. with Submiſſion, obliged to take Notice of. 

And it muſt be obſerv'd, for the Honor of our celebrated Mathematicians at 3 | 
that not one of. them ever mercenerily deſir'd a Monopolizing Act of Parliament for all 
the Obſervations they have imparted to Workmen, 

And it is preſum'd, Mr. Hutchinſons Bill will never paſs into a Law, for the ſame 
Reaſon for which he ſaith Mr. Facio's' miſcarried, becauſe he hath no more Invented 


this Movement, than Mr. Facio found ont the Uſe of precious Stones iu Watches. 


And if Mr. Barlow's Patent for Repeating Watches was (topped becauſe the ſame had 
been put in Practice in Clocks, certainly our having uſed his Movement both in 
1 and Watches, muſt be allowed to be a good Argument againſt | Mr. Hutebinſon s 
Bill. | 

But the Word LONGITUDE, and the Advantages thereof, carry a great Weight, 
and therefore Mr. Hutchinſon ſubtilly uſes them as Inducements for obtaining his Bill ; 
But we think we may ſafely deny that his Watch or Movement will go truer, and 
conſequently that LONGITUDE can be better found out by his pretended Invention, 
than by ſuch Movements as are already made by the Artiſts of the Trade. 

And withal, as aſſuming as Mr. Hutehinſon is, every Man, whether Mathematician 
or Mechanick, if he underſtands any thing of the Nature of Metals, muſt know that 
it is altogether impoſſible to hinder whatever depends upon Springs (which are all 
made of Metal) from being in ſome Meaſure: affected "oy the various Weather and 


| 8 Climates both of Sea and Land. 


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