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

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            la lumiere & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s289" xml:space="preserve">ſur la maniere dont elle nous
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            eſt tranſmiſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s291" xml:space="preserve">Le Pere Mallebranche, génie plus ſubtil
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              du Pere
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              Malle-
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              bran-
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              che.</note>
            que vrai, qui conſulta toujours ſes médita-
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            tions, mais non toujours le Nature, adopta
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            ſans preuve les trois Elémens de Deſcar-
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            tes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s292" xml:space="preserve">mais il changea beaucoup de choſes à
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            ce Château enchanté. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s293" xml:space="preserve">Il imagina ſans autre
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            preuve une autre explication de la lumiere.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s295" xml:space="preserve">Des vibrations du Corps lumineux impri-
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            ment, ſelon lui, des ſecouſſes à de petits
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            tourbillons mous, capables de compreſſion,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s296" xml:space="preserve">tout compoſés de matiere ſubtile. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s297" xml:space="preserve">Mais
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            ſi on avoit demandé à Mallebranche com-
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            ment ces petits tourbillons mous auroient
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            tranſmis à nos yeux la lumiere, comment
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            l’action du Soleil pourroit paſſer en un inſ-
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            tant à travers tant de petits corps compri-
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            més les uns par les autres, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s298" xml:space="preserve">dont un très-
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            petit nombre ſuffiroit pour amortir cette
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            action, comment enfin ſes tourbillons mous,
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            ne ſe ſeroient point mêlez en tournant les
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            uns ſur les autres, qu’auroit répondu le Pe-
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            re Mallebranche? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s299" xml:space="preserve">Sur quel fondement po-
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            ſoit-il cet édifice imaginaire? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s300" xml:space="preserve">Faut-il </s>
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