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Wikipedia: Ruđer Bošković (see names in other languages; 18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, Jesuit, and according to some a polymath from Ragusa, who lived for a time in France, England and some Italian states . He is famous for his atomic theory and made many important contributions to astronomy, including the first geometric procedure for determining the equator of a rotating planet from three observations of a surface feature and for computing the orbit of a planet from three observations of its position. In 1753 he also discovered the absence of atmosphere on the Moon.
![[The first page of figures from Theoria Philosophiæ Naturalis from 1763]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bosco_image_1_14_s.jpg "The first page of figures from Theoria Philosophiæ Naturalis from 1763")
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![[One of Bošković's poems, written in French and dedicated to the King of France.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/PjesmeBoscovic_s.jpg "One of Bošković's poems, written in French and dedicated to the King of France.")
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![[Portrait by Robert Edge Pine, London, 1760.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Rudjer_Boskovic_s.jpg "Portrait by Robert Edge Pine, London, 1760.")
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