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Another important influence is Roger Joseph Boscovich, whom Nietzsche discovered and learned about through his reading of Friedrich Albert Lange's 1865 Geschichte des Materialismus ( History of Materialism ), which Nietzsche read in 1866.

As early as 1872, Nietzsche went on to study Boscovich ’ s book Theoria Philosophia Naturalis for himself.

Nietzsche makes his only reference in his published works to Boscovich in Beyond Good and Evil where he declares war on " soul-atomism "§ Boscovich had rejected the idea of " materialistic atomism " which Nietzsche calls " one of the best refuted theories there are.

" The idea of centers of force would become central to Nietzsche's later theories of will to power.