Letter 0597

David Gregory to Hans Sloane – September 19, 1699


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Date: September 19, 1699
Author: David Gregory
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: f. 334



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Gregory offers his services to Sloane. He wants to publish a book of Plato’s writings. He has sent the latter to Sloane with the engravings he plans on printing with them. 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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