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).