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VOLTAIRE (1694 - 1778)
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VOLTAIRE (1694 - 1778)
L.A.S. "Voltaire gentilhomme ord. du roy", in Délices August 18 [1758], to abbé Charles BOSSUT "professeur Roial aux écoles du génie à Mézières"| 3 pages in-4, address with Geneva postmark (one margin restored, traces of tab, fold reinforced).
Beautiful scientific letter to the surveyor.
On his return from a visit to the Elector Palatine, Voltaire is delighted by a letter from Bossut: "You join the goust to the true philosophy". The city of
Mézières and well advantaged to have it. "The academy of science seems to be your real residence. But it is good that the light extends a little in the provinces and that in the long run, all the horizon is illuminated. Your rays penetrate until the lake of Geneva"...
Then he thanks Bossut for his very accurate observations: "The parallax of the fixed stars is an exaggeration. But I do not know if BROADLEY did not use this expression. He called the instrument he used a paralacic tube as far as I can remember. As for the difference between a sphere changed into an oval, it is certain that, physically speaking, the circumference is always the same. That's why bakers sell you the same round or oval bread for the same price. In physics you have to be satisfied with the approximate.
This is the way nature works. It does not matter to him that his works are in the mathematical rigor"...
Correspondence (Pléiade), t. V, n° 5200 (dated August 28).
L.A.S. "Voltaire gentilhomme ord. du roy", in Délices August 18 [1758], to abbé Charles BOSSUT "professeur Roial aux écoles du génie à Mézières"| 3 pages in-4, address with Geneva postmark (one margin restored, traces of tab, fold reinforced).
Beautiful scientific letter to the surveyor.
On his return from a visit to the Elector Palatine, Voltaire is delighted by a letter from Bossut: "You join the goust to the true philosophy". The city of
Mézières and well advantaged to have it. "The academy of science seems to be your real residence. But it is good that the light extends a little in the provinces and that in the long run, all the horizon is illuminated. Your rays penetrate until the lake of Geneva"...
Then he thanks Bossut for his very accurate observations: "The parallax of the fixed stars is an exaggeration. But I do not know if BROADLEY did not use this expression. He called the instrument he used a paralacic tube as far as I can remember. As for the difference between a sphere changed into an oval, it is certain that, physically speaking, the circumference is always the same. That's why bakers sell you the same round or oval bread for the same price. In physics you have to be satisfied with the approximate.
This is the way nature works. It does not matter to him that his works are in the mathematical rigor"...
Correspondence (Pléiade), t. V, n° 5200 (dated August 28).