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

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            ayant l’air de la vérité.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s186" xml:space="preserve">Selon Deſcartes la lumiere ne vient point
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            pouſſe, & </s>
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            tre bout. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s188" xml:space="preserve">Cela paroiſſoit plauſible, mais cela
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            n’en eſt pas moins faux: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s189" xml:space="preserve">cependant Deſcar-
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            lumiere du Soleil n’eſt pas transmiſe à nos yeux
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            en un inſtant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s192" xml:space="preserve">En effet, il faut avouer que,
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s193" xml:space="preserve">il lui
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            manquoit l’expérience du Siècle qui l’a ſui-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s194" xml:space="preserve">Ce Siècle eſt autant ſupérieur à Deſcar-
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            tes, que Deſcartes l’étoit à l’Antiquité.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s196" xml:space="preserve">10. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s197" xml:space="preserve">Si la lumiere étoit toujours répandue,
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              mouve-
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              ment
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              progreſ-
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              ſif de
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              la lu-
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              miere.</note>
            toujours exiſtante dans l’air, nous verrions
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            clair la nuit comme le jour, puiſque le Soleil
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            ſous l’Hemisphére pouſſeroit toujours les glo-
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            bules en tout ſens, & </s>
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