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!
Doesn't it just? Among other things, why I don't doubt Voltaire had a variety of self-related motives for his intervention - from possible leftover Émilie-related jealousy to present day Fritz related jealousy -, Maupertuis running the Academy like an absolutist state was bound to stir him into action sooner or later. Voltaire: never met an authority figure or institution in his life he didn't at the very least needle if not actively antagonize.
Terrell gave me the impression that mathematically, Maupertuis was right, but he was wrong to accuse König of forgery.
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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!
Re: Maupertuis
Doesn't it just? Among other things, why I don't doubt Voltaire had a variety of self-related motives for his intervention - from possible leftover Émilie-related jealousy to present day Fritz related jealousy -, Maupertuis running the Academy like an absolutist state was bound to stir him into action sooner or later. Voltaire: never met an authority figure or institution in his life he didn't at the very least needle if not actively antagonize.
Terrell gave me the impression that mathematically, Maupertuis was right, but he was wrong to accuse König of forgery.