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

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            agit davantage; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1838" xml:space="preserve">donc ils doivent agir auſſi
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            plus que les autres corps ſur la lumiere, la
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            briſer, la réfracter davantage.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1840" xml:space="preserve">Remarquons ſur-tout ici que cette attrac-
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              traction
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              n’entre
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              pas dans
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              tous les
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              effets de
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              la lumie-
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              re.</note>
            tion inhérente dans la matiere ne s’étend
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            pas à tout, n’opére pas tous les effets. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1841" xml:space="preserve">Le
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            myſtère de la lumiere réflechie du milieu
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            des pores, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1842" xml:space="preserve">de deſſus les ſurſaces, ſans tou-
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            cher aux ſurfaces, a des profondeurs que
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            les loix de l’attraction ne peuvent ſonder:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1843" xml:space="preserve">il n’y a qu’un Charlatan, qui ſe vante d’a-
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            voir un remede univerſel, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1844" xml:space="preserve">ce ſeroit être
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            Charlatan en Philoſophie que de rapporter
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            tout, ſans preuve, à la même cauſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1845" xml:space="preserve">cette
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            même force d’eſprit qui a fait découvrir à
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            Neuton le pouvoir de l’attraction, lui a fait
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            avouer que ce pouvoir eſt bien loin d’être
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            l’unique Agent de la Nature.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1847" xml:space="preserve">Il eſt bien vrai que le rayon le plus ré-
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            frangible étant le plus réflexible, c’eſt une
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            preuve évidente que la même puiſſance
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            opére la réflexion, la réſraction, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1848" xml:space="preserve">l’accélé-
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            ration de la chûte des rayons dans ce verre,
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            &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1849" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1850" xml:space="preserve">; mais enfin la force de l’attraction ſem-
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            ble n’avoir rien de commun avec </s>
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