David Gregory to Hans Sloane – September 19, 1699
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Date: September 19, 1699 Author: David Gregory Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: f. 334
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English
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British Library, London
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Patronage, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Books, Engravings, Plato, Publishing
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September 19, 1699
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Oxon.
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Mr Mourvioff [?] Plato
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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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