IN the time of Boscovich the line of demarcation between the philosopher and the physicist or mathematician was much less clearly marked than it is to-day-perhaps it is better to say than it was a few ...
Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.
Boscovich, Roger Joseph, “Theoria Philosophiæ Naturalis… (A Theory of Natural Philosophy, Reduced to a Single Law of the Forces existing in Nature)”. Latin-English edition, translation by J. M. Child.