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Doctor Akakia (full title: Histoire du Docteur Akakia et du Natif de St Malo) is a satirical essay of a very biting nature by Voltaire
Voltaire

Fran?ois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Age of Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosophy known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberty, including freedom of religion and free trade....
, directed against pretentious pedants of science in the person of Maupertuis
Pierre Louis Maupertuis

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a France mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Acad?mie des Sciences, and the first President of the Berlin Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great....
, the President of the Royal Academy of Sciences
Prussian Academy of Sciences

The Prussian Academy of Sciences was an academy established in Berlin on 11 July 1700.Prince-elector Frederick I of Prussia of Brandenburg founded the academy under the name of Kurf?rstlich Brandenburgische Societ?t der Wissenschaften upon the advice of Gottfried Leibniz, who was appointed president....
 at Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, which so excited the anger of Frederick the Great, the patron of the Academy, that he ordered it to be burnt by the common hangman, after 30,000 copies of it had been sold in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
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Doctor Akakia (full title: Histoire du Docteur Akakia et du Natif de St Malo) is a satirical essay of a very biting nature by Voltaire
Voltaire

Fran?ois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Age of Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosophy known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberty, including freedom of religion and free trade....
, directed against pretentious pedants of science in the person of Maupertuis
Pierre Louis Maupertuis

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a France mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Acad?mie des Sciences, and the first President of the Berlin Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great....
, the President of the Royal Academy of Sciences
Prussian Academy of Sciences

The Prussian Academy of Sciences was an academy established in Berlin on 11 July 1700.Prince-elector Frederick I of Prussia of Brandenburg founded the academy under the name of Kurf?rstlich Brandenburgische Societ?t der Wissenschaften upon the advice of Gottfried Leibniz, who was appointed president....
 at Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, which so excited the anger of Frederick the Great, the patron of the Academy, that he ordered it to be burnt by the common hangman, after 30,000 copies of it had been sold in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
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