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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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MacTutor History of Mathematics: Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich Biographical article, with links to related topics, bibliography and a poster. www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Boscovich.html

Jesuit Scientists: Roger Joseph Boscovich, S.J. Illustrated profile of this 18th-century polymath. www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sj/scientists/boscovich.htm

Catholic Encyclopedia: Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich Detailed article by Adolf Muller. www.newadvent.org/cathen/02691a.htm

Wikipedia: Rudjer Josip Boscovich Article drawn from the 1911 Britannica. www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudjer_Josip_Boscovich

Conspiracy of Unified Field Theory 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] www.nso.lt/history/boscovic.htm