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

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            vrai. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1507" xml:space="preserve">Il s’en faudra toujours un infiniment
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            petit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1508" xml:space="preserve">Mais deux hommes ne verroient pas
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            les mêmes points du même objet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1509" xml:space="preserve">Cela eſt
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            encore vrai. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1510" xml:space="preserve">De mille millions de perſonnes
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            qui regarderont une ſuperficie, il n’y en
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            aura pas deux qui verront les mêmes
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            points.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1512" xml:space="preserve">Il faut avouer que dans le plein de Deſ-
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            cartes, cette interſection de rayons eſt im-
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            poſſible; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1513" xml:space="preserve">mais tout eſt également impoſſi-
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            ble dans le plein, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1514" xml:space="preserve">il n’y a aucun mouve-
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            ment, tel qu’il ſoit, qui ne ſuppoſe & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1515" xml:space="preserve">ne
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            prouve le vuide.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1517" xml:space="preserve">Mallebranche vient à ſon tour & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1518" xml:space="preserve">vous
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            dit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1519" xml:space="preserve">Il eſt vrai que Deſcartes s’eſt trompé.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1520" xml:space="preserve">Son tournoyement de globules, n’eſt pas ſou-
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            tenable; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1521" xml:space="preserve">mais ce ne ſont pas des globules de
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            lumiere, ce ſont des petits tourbillons tour-
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            noyans de matiere ſubtile, capables de com-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0134-01" xlink:href="note-0134-01a" xml:space="preserve">Erreur
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              de Mal-
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              lebran-
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              che.</note>
            preſſion, qui ſont la cauſe des couleurs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1522" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
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            les couleurs conſiſtent comme les ſons dans des
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            vibrations de preſſion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1524" xml:space="preserve">Et il ajoute: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1525" xml:space="preserve">Il me
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            parait impoſſible de découvrir par aucun moyen
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            les rapports exacts de ces vibrations, c’eſt-
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            à-dire, des couleurs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1526" xml:space="preserve">Vous </s>
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