S^r

J have perus'd y^r book of optics.
J cannot be so mightily pleas'd with a book, without Loving the author.

Give me leave to submitt to y^r judgment these little answer of mine, which J have writ against some ignorant ennemies of s^r Isaac Neuton, whom you follow so closely in the path of truth and glory.

J am

s^r

y^r most humble obed servant

Voltaire

Paris the 10^th of october [1739] new stile