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 ... [MORE] 1. Catholic Encyclopedia: Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich - Detailed article by Adolf Muller. 2. 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] 3. Jesuit Scientists: Roger Joseph Boscovich, S.J. - Illustrated profile of this 18th-century polymath. 4. MacTutor History of Mathematics: Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich - Biographical article, with links to related topics, bibliography and a poster. 5. Boscovich on Point-like Atoms - Excerpts from the Child translation of Boscovich's 1763 classic Theory of Natural Philosophy. 6. Wikipedia: Rudjer Josip Boscovich - Article drawn from the 1911 Britannica.

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