Letter 1609

Herman Boerhaave to Hans Sloane – June 1, 1717


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Date: June 1, 1717
Author: Herman Boerhaave
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 7-8



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Vincent is selling his collection of natural historical specimens. Boerhaave offers to make purchases on Sloane’s behalf. 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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