Stephen Gray to Hans Sloane – July 31, 1711
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Date: July 31, 1711 Author: Stephen Gray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: ff. 336-337
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English
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British Library, London
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Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship, Scientific, Social
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Astronomy, Atmosphere, Navigation
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July 31, 1711
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Canterbury
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Henry Hunt John Somers Lord Pembroke
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Gray describes the difficulty and hardship of a scholarly life. He is worried that his efforts will lead to nothing and may turn ‘to astronomy and navigation and might hapily find something that might be of use’. He relays his findings on the ‘weight of the Atmosphere’. Gray was an experimental philosopher who established a rapport with the Royal Society and Royal Greenwich Observatory, published articles in the Transactions, and experimented with electricity (Michael Ben-Chaim, Gray, Stephen (bap. 1666, d. 1736), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11354, accessed 26 June 2013]).
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