BIB_ID
193749
Accession number
MA 4241
Creator
Maupertuis, 1698-1759.
Display Date
1739 Apr. 20.
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Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1985.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 21.6 cm
Notes
The recipient was the physician and secretary of the Royal Society.
With address.
With address.
Summary
Making reference to several of the most important scientific figures and controversies of the time: Maupertuis thanks Jurin for enabling Pierre Le Monnier [who accompanied Maupertuis on his Lapland expedition] to become a fellow of the Royal Society; he writes that Algarotti is bringing to London for presentation a book just published by the Marquise de Chatelet and Voltaire containing their essays written for a prize competition organized by the Academie des Sciences; he refers to Cassini III's geodetic measurements [which confirmed the Newtonian hypothesis of the elongation of the terrestrial spheroid; and independently proven by Maupertuis on the Lapland expedition].
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