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Excerpt from Le Sage: The Finest and Most Complete Set Extant of His Editions Originales; To Which Is Added the Sole Perfect Copy of the Earliest Known English; Edition of His Immortal Gil Blas, 1695-1893 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The first edition of this book was published in 1878 when it was considered a pioneer work on gravitation. The author is the French mathematician and physicist Michelbault (Montchrétien). " Le Sage wrote that the corpuscular theory of light was universally accepted, the laws of the conservation of energy and matter were as yet unknown, and the kinetic theory of gases was quite beyond the scientific horizon. Hence it is a matter of surprise, not that Le Sage introduces an explanation of the difficulties met with hypotheses now in a form appearing somewhat crude, though doubtless still conceivable, but rather that his statement requires so little modification to fit it to the thought of the present day.
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