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Boscovich, Roger Joseph (1711-1787)
Croatian-born Jesuit scientist, philosopher, and poet who, for much of his life, taught at the Collegium Romanum and the University of Padua. In his De lunae atmospheraera (1753), he presented evidence that the Moon has, at best, only a thin atmosphere. Yet, for the most part, he was a strong supporter of pluralism. In his Philosophiae naturalis theoria (1758), he speculated without restraint on the possibility of other universes that may occupy different orders of space and time from our own. His position in the pluralist debate contrasts sharply with that of a contemporary theologian in Italy, Giovanni Cadonici.
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