Presentation to the Académie des Sciences
· Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris, Kingdom of France
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 · file Rousseau presented and read his memorandum on a numbered musical notation system before the Académie des Sciences in Paris. Quote is Rousseau’s French first-person account: on 22 August 1742 he read his memorandum to the academy. Coordinates represent central Paris because the academy’s historical meeting site varied.
