Letter 0926

David Gregory to Hans Sloane – June 8, 1704


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Date: June 8, 1704
Author: David Gregory
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 307-308



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[fol. 308] Sir I send you an account of V. Viviani’s book as the Royal Society commanded me. I must beg of you to recommend the printing it exactly, for otherwise it will be unintelligible. If when it is corrected you will send down the last [?] to me, that will help secure it. I am Sir Your most humble and most obedient servant DGregory. Oxon. 8 June. 1704.

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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