Diatribe du docteur Akakia medecin du pape [electronic resource] : Decret de l'Inquisition et rapport des professeurs de Rome, au sujet d'un prétendu pr^'esident.

Oeuvres mêlées.

A Rome : [s.n.], MDCCLIII. [1753]

Great Britain -- England -- London.

French

30p. ; 12⁰.

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).
The imprint is fictitious; press figure 2 on pages 5 and 6 suggests English origin.
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).
Reproduction of original from British Library.

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English Short Title Catalog, N48341.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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