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Boscovich, Roger Joseph, “Theoria Philosophiæ Naturalis… (A Theory of Natural Philosophy, Reduced to a Single Law of the Forces existing in Nature)”. Latin-English edition, translation by J. M. Child. (Open Court, Chicago, London, 1922.) First Latin edition, Vienna, 1758. Boscovich was born in Ragusa, worked mainly in Italy, and was prolific in many fields. The present paper is restricted to his atomism; a broader survey will be. published elsewhere.
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WHYTE, L. Boscovich and Particle Theory. Nature 179, 284–285 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179284a0
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