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

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            certainement des parties ſolides de la ſuper-
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            ficie de ce miroir; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s451" xml:space="preserve">elle ne vient point non
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0047-01" xlink:href="note-0047-01a" xml:space="preserve">Lumie-
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              re non
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              réfle-
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              chie par
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              les par-
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              ties ſo-
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              lides.</note>
            plus des parties ſolides de mercure & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s452" xml:space="preserve">d’é-
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            tain étendues derriere cette glace. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s453" xml:space="preserve">Ces
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            parties ne ſont pas plus planes, pas
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            plus unies, que la glace même. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s454" xml:space="preserve">Les
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            parties ſolides de l’étain & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s455" xml:space="preserve">du mercure
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            ſont incomparablement plus grandes,
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            plus larges, que les parties ſolides conſ-
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            tituantes de la lumiere; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s456" xml:space="preserve">donc ſi les petites
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            particules de lumiere tombent ſur ces groſ-
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            ſes parties de mercure, elle s’éparpilleront
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            de tous côtés comme des grains de plomb
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            tombant ſur des platras. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s457" xml:space="preserve">Quel pouvoir in-
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            connu fait donc rejaillir vers nous la lumie-
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            re réguliérement? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s458" xml:space="preserve">Il paroît déja que ce ne
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            ſont pas les corps qui nous la renvoyent
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            ainſi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s459" xml:space="preserve">Ce qui ſembloit le plus connu le
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            plus inconteſtable chez les hommes, de-
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            vient un myſtère plus grand que ne l’étoit
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            autrefois la peſanteur de l’air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s460" xml:space="preserve">Examinons
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            ce Problême de la Nature, notre étonnement
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            redoublera. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s461" xml:space="preserve">On ne peut s’inſtruire ici qu’avec
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            ſurpriſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s463" xml:space="preserve">Prenez un morceau, un cube de criſtal,
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            par exemple; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s464" xml:space="preserve">voici tout ce qui arrive </s>
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