Voltaire, Elémens de la philosophie de Neuton : mis à la portée de tout le monde

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            plus la lumiere abſolument, que les corps
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            fluides; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1286" xml:space="preserve">car quoiqu’en effet l’eau opére une
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            réfraction moins forte, abſolument parlant,
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            que le verre; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1287" xml:space="preserve">cependant par rapport à fa
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            denſité, elle opére une réfraction plus for-
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            te. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1288" xml:space="preserve">Il eſt bien vrai que la lumiere ſe briſe
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            environ un neuvième davantage dans le
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            verre, que dans l’eau; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1289" xml:space="preserve">mais ſi la réfraction
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            ſuivoit le rapport de la denſité, elle devroit,
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            dans le verre, aller fort au delà d’un neu-
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            vième. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1290" xml:space="preserve">Imaginez deux hommes, dont l’un
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            aura quatre fois plus de force, que l’autre.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1291" xml:space="preserve">Si le plus fort ne porte qu’un poids une fois
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            plus peſant, il ſera vrai de dire que par rap-
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            port à ſa force, il n’a pas, à beaucoup près,
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            tant porté que l’autre; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1292" xml:space="preserve">car il devroit por-
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            ter quatre fois davantage.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1294" xml:space="preserve">L’ambre opére une réfraction bien plus
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            forte que le criſtal, par rapport à ſa denſité.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1295" xml:space="preserve">Peut-on dire cependant que l’ambre ouvri-
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            ra un chemin plus facile à la lumiere, que
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            le criſtal? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1296" xml:space="preserve">C’eſt donc une ſuppoſition fauſ-
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            ſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1297" xml:space="preserve">que la lumiere ſe briſe vers la perpendicu-
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            laire, quand elie trouve un corps tranſparent
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            plus ſolide qui lui réſiſte moins, parce qu’il eſt
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            plus ſolide.</s>
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