Işık Sarayı

I have resolved within myself to discourse on Light and to pass it on to the hands of posterity, a practice certainly very ancient and first used by those who were first wise. It was used then for charity, not for pomp. The motives of those authors contained nothing of glory but much of benefit; it was not their intention to brag that they themselves could see, but to lead those who, in some sense, were blind and did not see. To accomplish this, they did not proceed as some modern barbarians do by loud and malicious disputes; instead, a calm instruction was offered. Once that instruction was rejected, it was never urged again. But I observe that in their delivery of mysteries, they have imitated nature, who does not dispense her light without her shadows. They have provided a veil for their art, not so much for the sake of obscurity as for ornament. For my own part, I shall observe a middle way, neither too obscure nor too open, but such as may serve posterity and add some splendour to the science itself.