Letter signed from Samuel König to Pierre Maupertuis, written from The Hague and dated 21 March 1753
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CMV34697
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MA 3874.13, ‘Letter signed : The Hague, to Pierre Maupertuis, 1753 Mar. 21.’
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Letter signed from Samuel König to Pierre Maupertuis, written from The Hague and dated 21 March 1753
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Letter signed from Samuel König to Pierre Maupertuis, written from The Hague and dated 21 March 1753.
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Samuel König begins by denyng that he has had any role in inciting attacks against Maupertuis, adding that Maupertuis has only himself to blame for them. He states that he has seen almost nothing in Germany which attacks Maupertuis, and has not requested that anyone produce anything to that effect. König then turns to Voltaire and Émilie Du Châtelet, saying that he did not know that they were on poor terms with Maupertuis before the publication of Voltaire’s Diatribe du docteur Akakia. He concludes with reference to Leonhard Euler and mocks his writings in defence of Maupertuis.
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4 pp.
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Height: 224 mm
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21 March 1753
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Gifted to the Morgan Library by Mr. H.P. Kraus in 1979.
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