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Programska knjižica - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

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Unlike the other three characters, who are scientists and also real persons<br />

beyond the text, the fictional Lycidas is represented as a shepherd unfamiliar<br />

with recent scientific theories and achievements. Therefore, he might seem at<br />

first somewhat misplaced in such a learned fellowship, but Lycidas proves to<br />

be crucial to the shaping of Bošković’s discourse on northern lights, and in two<br />

senses at least: he is a necessary link to pastoral literature, and he motivates<br />

the conversation by his very ignorance. Analysis of procedures employed in<br />

Bošković’s text, and of its intertextual positioning, also offers clues to the consideration<br />

of further specialization of different types of discourse – literary and<br />

scientific – that took place in eighteenth century.<br />

Keywords: Ruđer Bošković, pastoral literature, character function, discourse motivation,<br />

intertextuality<br />

BLANKA JERGOVIĆ 1 , IVICA MARTINOVIĆ 2<br />

1<br />

Hrvatski studiji, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Hrvatska /<br />

Studia Croatica, University of Zagreb, Croatia<br />

2<br />

Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska /<br />

Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia<br />

BOŠKOVIĆEVI MOTIVI ZA PRIOPĆAVANJE NEWTONOVIH<br />

OTKRIĆA U OPTICI: ANALIZA ŠESTOGA PJEVANJA<br />

BOŠKOVIĆEVA EPA DE SOLIS AC LUNAE DEFECTIBUS<br />

Sámu istražujmo prirodu i što nam izlaže ona<br />

Svoje kad prolazi staze. Budni, i noću i danju,<br />

Motrimo, nek nam se napregnu oči, ustrajni bud’mo<br />

Kad nam je duge provoditi sate. Nije to dosta:<br />

Vještom se služimo desnicom da bi umijećima raznim<br />

Prirodu krotili s tisuću sprava, često joj rane<br />

Nanijevši. Nastojmo neka kroz muku svoje oglasi<br />

Zakone tajne i otkrije daleke uzroke stvar’ma.<br />

(VI, 206–213, preveo Ivica Martinović)<br />

Šesto i posljednje pjevanje Boškovićeva didaktičkog epa O pomrčinama<br />

Sunca i Mjeseca »pjesnička je apoteoza« Isaaca Newtona, čija djela, napose<br />

Principia i Opticks, jesu »kao neka proročišta koja daju istinite odgovore«,<br />

ističe znameniti Dubrovčanin (n. 19) i zato pjeva: »Ti ćeš mi, Newtone, veće<br />

božanstvo biti« (Tu maius mihi numen eris, Newtone, VI,10), podrazumijeva<br />

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