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

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            réſiſte pas plus que l’eau, & </s>
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            il opére une réfraction une fois plus forte,
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            ils auroient corrigé cette petite erreur.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1315" xml:space="preserve">Auſſi le Pere Deſchalles avoue qu’il doute
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            fort de ſon explication.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1317" xml:space="preserve">Enfin Neuton ſeul a trouvé la véritable
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              décou-
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              verte de
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              Neuton.</note>
            raiſon qu’on cherchoit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1318" xml:space="preserve">Sa découverte mé-
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            rite aſſûrément l’attention de tous les Siè-
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            cles. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1319" xml:space="preserve">Car il ne s’agit pas ici ſeulement
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            d’une proprieté particuliere à la lumiere,
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            quoique ce fût déja beaucoup; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1320" xml:space="preserve">nous ver-
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            rons que cette proprieté appartient à tous
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            les corps de la Nature.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1322" xml:space="preserve">Conſiderez que les rayons de la lumiere
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            ſont en mouvement, que s’ils ſe détour-
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            nent en changeant leur courſe, ce doit être
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            par quelque loi primitive, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1323" xml:space="preserve">qu’il ne doit
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            arriver à la lumiere, que ce qui arriveroit à
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            tous les corps de même petiteſſe que la lu-
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            miere, toutes choſes d’ailleurs égales.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1325" xml:space="preserve">Qu’une balle de plomb A. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1326" xml:space="preserve">ſoit pouſſée
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            obliquement de l’air dans l’eau, il lui arri-
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            vera d’abord le contraire de ce qui eſt arri-
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            vé à ce rayon de lumiere; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1327" xml:space="preserve">car ce </s>
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