Letter 1180

Sigismondo Alberghetti to Hans Sloane – June 30, 1700


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Date: June 30, 1700
Author: Sigismondo Alberghetti
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 27-28



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This certificate of the Academie royale des sciences represents the favourable report of MM. Cassini and De La Hire regarding Sigismondo Alberghetti’s Nuova Artiglieria Veneta. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) was a French author. He became a member of L’Academie francaise in 1691 and from 1697 he was perpetual secretary to L’Academie des Sciences. Fontenelle was very popular with French high society and his books were widely read (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Le_Bovier_de_Fontenelle).




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