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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s320" xml:space="preserve">Cette matiere de feu s’élance du Soleil
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            juſqu’à nous & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s321" xml:space="preserve">juſqu’à Saturne, &</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s323" xml:space="preserve">avec
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            une rapidité qui épouvante l’imagination.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s325" xml:space="preserve">Le calcul apprend que, ſi le Soleil eſt à
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            vingt quatre mille demi-diametres de la Ter-
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            re, il s’enſuit que la lumiere parcourt de cet
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            Aſtre à nous, (en nombres ronds) mille mil-
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            lions de pieds par ſeconde. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s326" xml:space="preserve">Or un boulet
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            d’une livre de bale, pouſſé par une demi-li-
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            vre de poudre, ne fait en une ſeconde que
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            600. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s327" xml:space="preserve">pieds; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s328" xml:space="preserve">ainſi donc la rapidité d’un rayon
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            du Soleil eſt, en nombres ronds, ſeize cens
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            ſoixante & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s329" xml:space="preserve">ſix mille ſix cens fois plus forte
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            que celle d’un boulet de Canon.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s331" xml:space="preserve">Je n’entrerai point ici dans la fameu-
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              Memoi-
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              res de
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              l’Acadé-
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              mie
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              1728.</note>
            ſe diſpute des forces vives; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s332" xml:space="preserve">je renvoye
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            ſur cela le Lecteur au Mémoire plein de
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            ſageſſe & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s333" xml:space="preserve">de profondeur qu’a donné Mr. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s334" xml:space="preserve">de
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            Mairan.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s336" xml:space="preserve">J’eſpére que ce Philoſophe & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s337" xml:space="preserve">ceux qui
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            ſont le plus oppoſés aux forces vives, per-
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            mettront qu’on avance en toute rigueur
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            cette Propoſition ſuivante:</s>
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