John Woodward to Hans Sloane – March 27, 1722
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Date: March 27, 1722 Author: John Woodward Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046 Folio: f. 222
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Library, Scholarship, Travel
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Books, Catalogues, France, Optometry
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March 27, 1722
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Gr. Coll.
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John Thomas Woolhouse
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[fol. 222] Gr. Coll. 27. Mar. 22. Sr. I fear Mr. Woolhouse will find it very difficult to find ye Books you want. He has searchd Paris, & wrote to Monpellier, Aix, & several other Towns, in vain. But he persists: & will procure them, if so he had. The Kings Library is all on Heaps; but you may be sure of Transcripts thence, ater all. He presses much for a Catalogue of all the Books, in your Library, relating to ye Eye. He is publishing an Account of all yt has been wrote of yt Organ. There’s no Date on Georgius Valla; he desire to know where, when, & with what other Tract’s twas set forth. I am, with great Regard, Sr. Your truly faithfull humble servant. Woodward
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 (1665/16681728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29946, accessed 17 June 2011]).
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