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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s200" xml:space="preserve">20. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s201" xml:space="preserve">Il eſt démontré que la lumiere émane
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            du Soleil, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s202" xml:space="preserve">on ſait que c’eſt à peu près en
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            ſept ou huit minutes de tems qu’elle fait ce
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            chemin immenſe, qu’un boulet de Canon
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            conſervant ſa vîteſſe ne feroit pas en vingt-
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            cinq années.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s204" xml:space="preserve">L’Auteur du Spectacle de la Nature, Ou-
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              du Spec-
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              tacle de
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              la Natu-
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            vrage très - eſtimable, eſt tombé ici dans
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            une petite mépriſe qu’il corrigera ſans dou-
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            te à la premiere Edition de ſon Livre. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s205" xml:space="preserve">Il dit
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            que la lumiere vient en ſept minutes
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            des Etoiles, ſelon Neuton; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s206" xml:space="preserve">il a pris les Etoiles
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            pour le Soleil. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s207" xml:space="preserve">La lumiere émane des Etoi-
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            les les plus prochaines en ſix mois, ſelon un
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            certain calcul fondé ſur des expériences très-
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            délicates & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s208" xml:space="preserve">très - fautives. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s209" xml:space="preserve">Ce n’eſt point
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            Neuton, c’eſt Hugens & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s210" xml:space="preserve">Hartſoeker, qui
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            ont fait cette ſuppoſition. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s211" xml:space="preserve">Il dit encore, pour
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            prouver que Dieu créa la lumiere avant le
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            Soleil, que la lumiere eſt répandue par toute la
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            Nature, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s212" xml:space="preserve">qu’ elle ſe fait ſentir, quand les Aſtres
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            lumineux la pouſſent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s213" xml:space="preserve">mais il eſt démontré
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            qu’elle arrive des Etoiles fixes en un
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            tems très-long. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s214" xml:space="preserve">Or, ſi elle fait ce chemin, el-
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            le n’étoit donc point répandue auparavant.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s215" xml:space="preserve">Il eſt bon de ſe précautionner contre </s>
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