RUGGERO BOSCOVICH. DE LEGE VIRIUM IN NATURA EXISTENTIUM DISSERTATIO. Roma 1755

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42, [2] p., [1] table paper. folded
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The present work constitutes an important springboard for Boscovich in his contribution to the structural analysis, which culminated three years later in the publication of Philosophiae naturalis theoria. This work, in which he anticipated the theories of Mach, Poincaré and Einstein by 150 years, postulated a revolutionary atomic theory according to which each material point connects a point in space and a moment in time.