Bošković, Ruđer Josip, Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in natura existentium
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            applicatione ita exhibuit, ut eadem in iis omnibus ubi-
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            que ſe prodat uniformis agendi ratio, non ex arbitrariis
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            hypotheſibus, & </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">fictitiis commentationibus, ſed ex ſola
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            continua ratiocinatione deducta. </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">Ejuſmodi autem eſt
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            omnis, ut eas ubique vel definiat, vel adumbret combi-
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            nationes elementorum, quæ ad diverſa præſtanda phæ-
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            nomena ſunt adhibendæ, ad quas combinationes Condi-
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            toris Supremi conſilium, & </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">immenſa Mentis Divinæ
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            vis ubique requiritur, quæ infinitos caſus perſpiciat, & </s>
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            ad rem aptiſſimos ſeligat, ac in Naturam inducat.</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve">Id mihi quidem argumentum eſt operis, in quo Theo-
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            riam meam expono, comprobo, vindico: </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">tum ad Mecha-
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            nicam primum, deinde ad Phyſicam applico, & </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">uberri-
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            mos uſus expono, ubi brevi quidem libello, ſed admo-
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            dum diuturnas annorum jam tredecim meditationes com-
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            plector meas, eo plerumque tantummodo rem deducens,
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            ubi demum cum communibus Philoſophorum conſentio
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            placitis, & </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">ubi ea, quæ habemus jam pro compertis,
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            ex meis etiam deductionibus ſponte fluunt, quod uſque
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            adeo voluminis molem contraxit. </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">Dederam ego quidem
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            diſperſa diſſertatiunculis variis Theoriæ meæ quædam ve-
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            lut ſpecimina, quæ inde & </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">in Italia Profeſſores publi-
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            cos nonnullos adſtipulatores eſt nacta, & </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">jam ad ex-
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            teras quoque gentes pervaſit: </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">ſed ea nunc primum
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            tota in unum compacta, & </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">veroetiam pluſquam duplo
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            aucta, prodit in publicum, quem laborem poſtremo
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            hoc menſe, moleſtioribus negotiis, quæ me Viennam
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            adduxerant, & </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">curis omnibus exſolutus ſuſcepi, dum
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            in Italiam rediturus opportunum itineri tempus inter
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            aſſiduas nives opperior, ſed omnem in eodem adornan-
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            do, & </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">ad communem mediocrium etiam Philoſopho-
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            rum captum accommodando diligentiam adhibui.</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve">Inde vero jam facile intelliges, cur ipſum laborem
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            meum ad Te deferre, & </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">Tuo nuncupare Nomini non
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            dubitaverim. </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">Ratio ex iis, quæ propoſui, eſt duplex:
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            </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve">primo quidem ipſum argumenti genus, quod Chriſtia-
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            num Antiſtitem non modo non dedecet, ſed etiam </s>
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