Letter 4017

David Gregory to Hans Sloane – September 21, 1697


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Date: September 21, 1697
Author: David Gregory
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 353



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Gregory thanks Sloane for sending the latest Philosophical Transactions. He wants to correct an error he made in his paper in the next issue. Wallis and Charlett offer their services to Sloane. Gregory was a mathematician and astronomer who published the first astronomy textbook to integrate Newton’s gravitational theory (Anita Guerrini, Gregory, David (16591708), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11456, accessed 24 June 2013]).




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