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

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            rouge eſt un aſſemblage d’un très-grand nom-
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            bre de rayons rouges. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1709" xml:space="preserve">Le violet eſt un aſ-
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            ſemblage de rayons violets. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1710" xml:space="preserve">Si donc ce
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            faiſceau violet peſe vingt-huit fois moins
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            qu’un faiſceau blanc, que ſera-ce qu’un ſeul
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            des traits de ce faiſceau?</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1712" xml:space="preserve">Conſidérons un de ces traits ſimples, qui
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            différe d’un autre trait: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1713" xml:space="preserve">par exemple, le
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            plus mince trait rouge différe en tout
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            du plus mince trait violet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1714" xml:space="preserve">Il faut que ſes
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0149-01" xlink:href="note-0149-01a" xml:space="preserve">Atomes
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              dont la
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              lumiere
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              eſt com-
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              poſée.</note>
            parties ſolides ſoient autant d’atomes par-
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            faitement durs, leſquels compoſent ſon ê-
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            tre. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1715" xml:space="preserve">En effet, ſi les corps n’étoient pas com-
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            poſés de parties ſolides, dures, indiviſibles,
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            de véritables atomes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1716" xml:space="preserve">comment les eſpèces
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            des corps pourroient-elles reſter éternelle-
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            ment les mêmes? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1717" xml:space="preserve">Qui mettroit entre elles
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            une différence ſi conſtante? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1718" xml:space="preserve">Ne faut-il pas
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            que les parties qui font leur eſſence, ſoient
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            aſſez dures, aſſez ſolides, aſſez unes, pour
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            être toujours ce qu’elles ſont? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1719" xml:space="preserve">Car com-
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            ment eſt-ce que dans le germe d’un grain
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0149-02" xlink:href="note-0149-02a" xml:space="preserve">Les
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              princi-
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              pes des
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              corps
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              ſont des
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              atomes.</note>
            de bled ſeroient contenus tant de grains de
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            bled, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1720" xml:space="preserve">rien autre choſe, ſi la configuration
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            des petites parties n’étoit pas toujours la
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            même, ſi elle n’étoit pas toujours </s>
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