The character, lately published beyond the seas, of an eminent person, not long since dead at Tholouse, where he was a councellor of Parliament

Abstract

It is the deservedly famous Mounsieur de Fermat, who was, (faith the author of the letter) one of the most excellent men of this age, a genius fo universal, and of so vast an extent, that if very knowing and learned men had not given testimony of his extraordinary merit, what with truth can be said of him, would hardly be believed.