Letter 0467

William Molyneux to Hans Sloane – November 13, 1697


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Date: November 13, 1697
Author: William Molyneux
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 367-368



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Molyneux informs Sloane that he has sent a package via the Christopher, bound for London. He will have a sketch of an unspecified place drawn up and sent within the week. Molyneux discusses Newton’s work and mathematical scholarship. Molyneux was a philosopher and constitutional writer who became deeply involved in Irish affairs (James G. O’Hara, ‘Molyneux, William (1656–1698)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18929, accessed 4 July 2011]).




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