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

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            ment ces mêmes expériences, que cepen-
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            Thèſes contre cette vérité, & </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1623" xml:space="preserve">Enfin, quand on a été obligé de céder à
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1624" xml:space="preserve">on
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            a vu le fait, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1625" xml:space="preserve">on a chicané ſur l’expreſ-
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            ſion: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1626" xml:space="preserve">on s’eſt révolté contre le terme de
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            réſrangibilité, auſſi-bien que contre celui
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            d’attraction, de gravitation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1627" xml:space="preserve">Eh qu’im-
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            porte le terme, pourvû qu’il indique une vé-
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            rité? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1628" xml:space="preserve">Quand Chriſtofle Colomb découvrit
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            l’iſle Hiſpaniola, ne pouvoit-il pas lui im-
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            poſer le nom qu’il vouloit? </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1632" xml:space="preserve">Il appelle ces rayons, rouges, jaunes, & </s>
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              ques en-
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              core plus
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              vaines.</note>
            des rayons rubrifiques, jaunifiques, </s>
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