Quotes About Boscovich

The first scientist to contemplate the significance of places where things apparently cease to exist or become infinite ('singularities' that we would Now call them) in Newtonian Theory where the 18th century scientist leonhard Euler and Roger boscovich.

For while Copernicus has persuaded us to believe, contrary to all the senses, that the earth does NOT stand fast, Boscovich has taught us to abjure the belief in the last thing that stood fast of the earth—the belief in substance, in matter, in the earth-residuum, and particle-atom: it is the greatest triumph over the senses that has hitherto been gained on earth.

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.