General note | Anonymous. By Voltaire, who composed this piece on the basis of the controversy that arose between Maupertuis and the German mathematician Samuel Koenig (cf. Bengesco 1624). |
General note | The imprint is fictitious; press figure 2 on pages 5 and 6 suggests English origin. |
General note | Probably issued together with "Defense de milord Bollingbroke", as it was in a "Berlin" edition, with collected title: 'Oeuvres mêlées d'un auteur célèbre, qui s'est retiré de France' (cf. BN, CCXIV-II, no. 3869). |
General note | Reproduction of original from British Library. |
References |
English Short Title Catalog, N48341. |
Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
Other title |
Oeuvres mêlées. |