Letter 0443

David Gregory to Hans Sloane – April 24, 1697


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Date: April 24, 1697
Author: David Gregory
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 305-306



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Gregory writes of the paper he authored for the Philosophical Transactions. Gregory was a mathematician and astronomer who published the first astronomy textbook to integrate Newton’s gravitational theory (Anita Guerrini, Gregory, David (16591708), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11456, accessed 24 June 2013]).




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