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Luca Guzzardi

Ruggiero Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy Points, Distances, Determinations

Science Networks. Historical Studies

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Luca Guzzardi

Ruggiero Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy Points, Distances, Determinations

Luca Guzzardi Dipartimento di Filosofia Università degli Studi di Milano Milano, Italy

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To my father and to the memory of my mother . . . We could not see without inventing what we saw, so at least we could try to do it properly. And then, because she shrugged dismissively and said: Why? Why should we try, why not just take the world as it is? I told her . . . that we had to try because the alternative wasn’t blankness—it only meant that if we didn’t try ourselves, we would never be free of other people’s inventions—Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines

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