BIB_ID
80409
Accession number
MA 729.3
Creator
Alembert, Jean Le Rond d', 1717-1783.
Display Date
1781 Feb. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 21.5 cm
Notes
Bound in front of d'Alembert's Sur les couleurs qui se forment au foyer des lentilles (MA 729.1). The volume also includes an engraving of d'Alembert (MA 729.2).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1911.
Summary
Informing the recipient that he read his letter and presented it to an academic assembly; noting that the assembly expressed its gratitude for his work.
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