Letter 1604

Herman Boerhaave to Hans Sloane – July 8, 1716


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Date: July 8, 1716
Author: Herman Boerhaave
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 185-186



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Boerhaave congratulates Sloane on his Baronetcy. He thinks it unfortunate that the Royal Society lost the opportunity to publish Ruysch’s ‘Thesaurum anatomicum’. Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch physician, botanist, and humanist famous for his teaching at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leiden. He was a fellow of the Academie des sciences and the Royal Society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Boerhaave).




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