Letter signed : Cirey, to Père [Charles] Porée, 1738 Nov. 17.

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Letter signed : Cirey, to Père [Charles] Porée, 1738 Nov. 17.

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A letter to his former teacher from the College of Jesuits, Paris, sending his paper "Elements de la philosophie de Newton," paying homage to Porée and the Jesuits, saying "it is you who taught me to think. The kind of eloquence which you practise, being only the ornament of truth, leads naturally to philosophy"; discussing scientific theory ("It is true that Newton's philosophy seems quite strange, but the vortices of Descartes were even more so, and they had the additional misfortune of being based neither on geometry nor on experiment which are the two sole sources of physical truth."

1 item (3 p.) ; 22.4 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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