Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
6-1-2007
Abstract
In Euler’s popular notes to a German Princess of 1837, he describes Voltaire as laughing about the idea of a hole going to Earth’s center. Did Voltaire actually write about this idea? Herein we describe the answers to be found upon searching through the huge opus of Voltaire’s written work. The result has links to Newton’s 1687 Principia discoveries and the French Academy’s early eighteenth century international scientific expeditions to Lapland and Peru establishing the veracity of those discoveries.
Recommended Citation
Simoson, Andrew, "Voltaire: A Study in Finding a Needle in a Haystack" (2007). ACMS Conference Proceedings 2007. 11.
https://pillars.taylor.edu/acms-2007/11
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