Gottfried Sellius (1704-1767) was a German academic, translator, and initiator of the project that led to the production of the Encyclopédie. He studied at Marburg and Leiden and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733
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Gottfried Sellius to Hans Sloane, 1733-07-20, Sloane MS 4053, f. 13, British Library, London.
Gottfried Sellius, Wikipedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Sellius, accessed 23/08/17]
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