Autograph letter signed : Berlin, to Pierre Maupertuis, 1749 Feb. 1.

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Autograph letter signed : Berlin, to Pierre Maupertuis, 1749 Feb. 1.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/659838355

Thanking Maupertuis for ordering experimental liquid-filled lenses from Paris for him; commenting on the publication of the Academy's Memoires; discussing his works on Saturn and on dioptrics; alluding to the non-agreement of the moon's motion with Newtonian theory; mentioning the possible relocation of the Homann firm of geographers from Nuremberg to Berlin.

1 item (3 p.) ; 25 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7951189

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