| RefNo | MS/82/19 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor]; dated at Paris |
| Date | 26 April 1718 |
| Description | Addressed to Brook Taylor in Aix-La-Chapelle at the Imperial tower, new the New Baths [Palace of Aachen, Germany] .
Discusses the latest news of the Jacobite exile following the 1715 uprising: King James [James Francis Edward Stuart] and Chevalier de St George may be in Italy at the invitation of the Pope [indeed in Urbino then reached Rome in 1718]; the involvement of the King of Sweden [Charles XII] and Spain mounting a potential fleet. Mentions disappointement over the fact that appeals to repeal the 'Unigenitus' 1713 Papal bull [against the Jansenists] have failed and that Rome is refusing to make any concessions.
Has received Brook Taylor's letter from 13 April sent from Aachen. Historian [Pierre-Alexandre] Levesque [de la Ravaliere] sends his regards and has brought Montmort a manuscript volume of notes written by [Justus Christoph] Boehmer, his uncle [Gerhard Wolter] Molanus abbot of Loccum and [Gottfried] Leibniz about a possible union between the Augsburg Protestants [Lutherans] and the Roman Catholics. Has found some momentous things in Leibniz letters on theology and controversies, and will sent some extracts, including that in 1691 he wrote in similar terms to [Isaac] Newton on the effect of bodies on each other and on distance and mass.
Happy to hear that Brook Taylor's health is improving. Along with the wine sent to [John Taylor], Brook Taylor's father is a treatise written by Montmort on the difference between Cartesian philosophy and English natural philosophy.
Thanks for the present sent to Mme de Montmort. Is leaving Paris for Montmort on 15 June where he will stay until the end of the year.
Nicole may have solved Leibniz's problem, the solution was sent to Bernoulli.
Some sums in pencil added at the end of the letter. |
| Language | French |
| Extent | 4 pp. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and pencil on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6093 | Taylor; Brook (1685 - 1731) | 1685 - 1731 |
| NA7789 | Montmort; Pierre Remond de (1678 - 1719) | 1678 - 1719 |