BIB_ID
299809
Accession number
MA 3874.6
Creator
König, Samuel, 1712-1757.
Display Date
1750 Nov. 1.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. H. P. Kraus, 1979.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.7 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 "S. Koenig."
Signed "S. Koenig."
Provenance
Gift of Mr. H. P. Kraus, 1979.
Summary
Thanking Maupertuis and his wife for their hospitality during his stay in Berlin. Describing an injury and offering excuses for his failure to personally deliver some of Maupertuis's works to King William IV of Holland. Enclosing (not present) a paper giving the solution to one of Cardanus's algebraic problems, hoping that Leonhard Euler will comment on it. Witha postscript mentioning a work of Count Algarotti, which he was also sending to King William IV.
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