Letter 1195

John Woodward to Hans Sloane – January 16, 1707/08


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Date: January 16, 1707/08
Author: John Woodward
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: f. 92



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Woodward thanks Sloane for sending the accounts of newly published books. He will soon be in London and asks Sloane to inform Mr Hodges that he will wait on him next week. 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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