Maupertuis: ...Okay. Academy members, we will model this Academy and its interactions on the new modern state of Prussia. I'm Fritz, of course. You're everyone else.
...wow! This... explains a lot.
Ms Terrell, hot stuff Algarotti was clearly part of the intendended entertainment for the Lappland nights!
HAHAHAHA I laughed out loud because it is true!
Voltaire: I actuallly have no idea whether Maupertuis is correct about the principle of least action without Émiilie explaining it to me
LOLOLOL ALSO TRUE :DDDD I did think that was very interesting in regards to the feud (and how König muddies the waters so much), and how Voltaire sails in and makes it a literary drama instead of a mathematical/plagiarist one. ...Was König right (or does anyone now think he was), does Terrell say?
Also Euler! Man, Fritz, if you hadn't had such a hangup about German you could have had *Euler* as your Academy President!
Re: Maupertuis
Maupertuis: ...Okay. Academy members, we will model this Academy and its interactions on the new modern state of Prussia. I'm Fritz, of course. You're everyone else.
...wow! This... explains a lot.
Ms Terrell, hot stuff Algarotti was clearly part of the intendended entertainment for the Lappland nights!
HAHAHAHA I laughed out loud because it is true!
Voltaire: I actuallly have no idea whether Maupertuis is correct about the principle of least action without Émiilie explaining it to me
LOLOLOL ALSO TRUE :DDDD
I did think that was very interesting in regards to the feud (and how König muddies the waters so much), and how Voltaire sails in and makes it a literary drama instead of a mathematical/plagiarist one. ...Was König right (or does anyone now think he was), does Terrell say?
Also Euler! Man, Fritz, if you hadn't had such a hangup about German you could have had *Euler* as your Academy President!