BIB_ID
299758
Accession number
MA 3874.2
Creator
König, Samuel, 1712-1757.
Display Date
1740 Nov. 8.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. H. P. Kraus, 1979.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection 19 letters related to the least action controversy. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see collection-level record for MA 3874 for more information.
Signed "Sam. Koenig."
The professorship "apparently did not materialize."--Cf. Schumann, p. 39.
Signed "Sam. Koenig."
The professorship "apparently did not materialize."--Cf. Schumann, p. 39.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. H. P. Kraus, 1979.
Summary
Congratulating Maupertuis on his reception at Berlin by Frederic the Great, and discussing Frederic as the "philosopher King." Anticipating an appointment as a professor at Utrecht, and mentioning his attempts to publish a German translation of Maupertuis's book on the shape of the Earth (Figure de la Terre, 1738).
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