John Woodward to Hans Sloane – August 5, 1718
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Date: August 5, 1718 Author: John Woodward Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045 Folio: ff. 138-139
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Curiosity Reports, Scholarship
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Amber, Animals, Books, Crocodiles, Fossils, Saxony, Specimens
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August 5, 1718
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Gresham College
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Johannes Heinricus Linck Johann Philipp Breyne Dr Browning Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
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Woodward sends Scheuchzer’s new book with fossils and amber. He discusses a ‘Paper of the Crocodile digd up in Saxony’. Woodward was a physician, natural historian and antiquary who expounded a theory of the earth in which fossils were creatures destroyed by the biblical flood. This embroiled him in a controversy in which he was opposed by John Ray, Edward Llwyd, Martin Lister, and Tancred Robinson (J. M. Levine, Woodward, John (1665/16681728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29946, accessed 17 June 2011]).
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