John Woodward to Hans Sloane – December 30, 1721
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Date: December 30, 1721 Author: John Woodward Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046 Folio: f. 169
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English
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British Library, London
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Royal Society, Scholarship
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Experiments, Translations
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December 30, 1721
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Gr. Coll.
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Philip Miller
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[fol. 169] Gr. Coll. 30. Dec. 1721. Sr. The inclosed are the Experiments I promised you; copyd by Mr Miller. Who has also translated them; wch I judgd would be proper; if you thought fit to import them to the R. Society, wch they well merit. If they are of my Use or Satisfaction to you, I have my aim; being Sr. Your very faithfull humble Servant Woodward Sr. Hans Sloane.
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 (1665/1668-1728)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29946, accessed 17 June 2011]).
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