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

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            fans avoir touché à cette ſurface.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s545" xml:space="preserve">2
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            . </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s546" xml:space="preserve">La lumiere n’eſt point renvoyée de
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            derriere un miroir par la ſurface ſolide du
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            vif argent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s547" xml:space="preserve">mais elle eſt renvoyée du ſein des
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            pores du miroir, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s548" xml:space="preserve">des pores du vif argent
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            même.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s551" xml:space="preserve">Il ne faut point, comme on l’a penſé
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            juſques à préſent, que les pores de ce vif ar-
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            gent ſoient très-petits pour réflechir la lu-
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            miere, au contraire il faut qu’ils ſoient
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            larges.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s553" xml:space="preserve">Ce ſera encore un nouveau ſujet de ſur-
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              pores
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              ſont pe-
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              tits plus
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              la lumie-
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              re paſſe.</note>
            priſe pour ceux qui n’ont pas étudié
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            cette Philoſophie, d’entendre dire que
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            le ſecret de rendre un corps opaque, eſt
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            ſouvent d’élargir ſes pores, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s554" xml:space="preserve">que le moyen
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            de le rendre tranſparent eſt de les étrecir.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s555" xml:space="preserve">L’ordre de la Nature paraitra tout changé: </s>
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            ce qui ſembloit devoir faire l’opacité, eſt
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            préciſément ce qui opérera la tranſparence; </s>
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s558" xml:space="preserve">ce qui paraiſſoit rendre les corps tranſ-
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            parens, ſera ce qui les rendra opaques. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s559" xml:space="preserve">Ce-
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            pendant rien n’eſt ſi vrai, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s560" xml:space="preserve">l’expérience
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            la plus groſſiére le démontre.</s>
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