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Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich (Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Rudjer Josip Boskovic), 1711-1787. Croatian scientist and philosopher of the Enlightenment period. He is best known for his effort to explain reality through the attraction and repulsion of non-dimensional particles. This was an important early step in the philosophy of physics, and had a profound influence on the later electromagnetic theory of Maxwell.

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• Catholic Encyclopedia: Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02691a.htm
  Detailed article by Adolf Muller.

• Conspiracy of Unified Field Theory

  http://www.nso.lt/history/boscovic.htm
  Contends that Boscovich's theories played a key role in the foundations of Einstein's vision of a unified field theory. Part of a larger site arguing that mainstream science is a religion. [English, Lithuanian]

• MacTutor History of Mathematics: Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich

  http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Boscovich.html
  Biographical article, with links to related topics, bibliography and a poster.

• Wikipedia: Rudjer Josip Boscovich

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudjer_Josip_Boscovich
  Article drawn from the 1911 Britannica.

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